I just went done this road and i’d say it is worth it even only for the learning part. I’ve set counter per application in nftable, and via a python script send them in SVG graph format to Glance dashboard. The result is I can monitor my whole network per application and the best part it all add up very well so I know there is no ‘unknown’ outgoing or ingoing traffic on my machine.

Yes it runs fine I played it a lot on my system. It was unplayble when I tested on Hyprland due to interaction click being unusable but worked fine on sway

Is there any actual benefit ?

It is not as overwhelming as you make it sounds, you don’t need to read the whole changelog every time you update just check Arch news page and they state any manual action an update might need. I run arch since like 1 y and I almost never had to do such manual actions. You can see on archlinux.org news it’s not that bad although I can totally see why it is not suitable for most people

The definition of critical thinking is not relying on only one source. Next rain will make you wet keep tuned.

Imagine your view point is aligning with Musk one… You’re either a billionaire or a dumb looser thinking is a part of a club he isn’t in