Meow.tar.gz 
The one not insignificant downside to #ArchLinux is that it seems like updates are pretty nuclear. If you're going to run pacman -Syu, you'd better keep your ass cheeks puckered. LOL! I am sure it's not that bad but you do have to be careful, and in fairness, the Arch folks warn you that care and planning is necessary.
Charlotte 🏳️⚧️ 
@ablackcatstail
I on occasion get a package or two that breaks every couple months from an update, but the entire system going down has been a very rare occurrence for me. I've never had to rely on off-disk backups with arch, just on-disk timeshift backups once or twice.
I've found in my personal experience that arch is actually more stable than other distros such as Ubuntu, but that might just be me.
I've also found that regardless of distro, a distro is most likely to break if you haven't updated in at least a year and try a full upgrade of everything all at once.