@raptor @xianc78 Yea, I just realized that you said that Ubuntu and Mint users are usually WinDOS refugees, so that's one mistake on my end.
Though my point is that fundamental differences between Ubuntu and Arch isn't all that different.
You still have all the system configs in /etc, all the binaries in /usr/bin (or /usr/local/bin), your home directory in /home, and so on.

But it's true that your average Ubuntu or Mint user doesn't know that simply because they've been kind of isolated away from it (in the sense of "don't worry, the distro maintainer will handle this for you").
The consequence of that is that when something breaks, they'll have no idea what to do and resort to just re-installing the entire OS.
But then again, having knowledge of all of that isn't ultimately decided by the distro, because Ubuntu and Mint users can also just tinker around in system directories and files as much as Arch users can do, it's rather the average userbase each distro's attract.

And honestly I'm fine with Arch having the "hard to use" stereotype, because at least it prevents the distro from being destroyed for both experienced users and beginners just to make it "more accessible" for just 0.0002% of the total userbase.