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If you're comfortable with Arch why not stick to it? Distro hopping is not bad but there are diminishing returns beyond the package manager and package release style. Eventually all distros run the same apps.
I've had instances where the system breaks,usually when I don't update for a while. I don't want to face that on my 'stable' machine
I've never seen Arch breaking by itself while updating, it may happen if you do "pacman -Sy" instead of "pacman -Syu"
Hm you can try Manjaro. It's basically that, Arch for people who'd like rolling but don't want the risks that go with it.
I haven't had any failed update in the 4 years I've been using it. But it also has built-in update snapshots if you choose BTRFS for the root partition, so you can revert if something goes wrong.
The catch about Manjaro is that you have to trade some of the liberties of Arch for the stability. They hold back packages until they're satisfied they're stable (they have their own "stable" branch which doesn't exist on Arch) and they strongly recommend sticking to LTS kernels. They also have GUI helper apps for important things (kernel version switch, hardware driver management and package installer) that they recommend to use.
You can use pacman and it's still Arch inside but you have to behave in order to have a stable system.
Manjaro is a distro I've given up on. Broke itself twice for me. I much prefer Endeavour OS or Arco (shout-out to that excellent community)