As someone who implemented webauthn for my $work it was a terrible DX to setup. Webauthn requires an https domain so that alone is going to be a barrier for many self hosted services. Getting the configuration right will also be prohibitive.

Quadlet

I use https://tuns.sh/ which doesn’t require any local installs to work since it’s just ssh. Its not as fast as vpn but its easy to use

I don’t really understand the question. All you have to do is run archinstall and then add a desktop environment like KDE and that’s like 80% what other distros do.

I think arch used to be hard to get started but not anymore. That’s reserved for gentoo now

Because if you are into minimalism there’s no eye candy. I use river as well and decided to ditch the status bar. There’s literally nothing to see on my screen except for my terminal. It might have neovim but again, i went super stock on my neovim config: https://erock-git-dotfiles.pgs.sh/tree/main/item/dot_config/nvim/init.lua.html

There’s really nothing to see

There’s also archinstall which comes with the latest os image which is just like any other installer and holds your hand through the process.

It’s really very simple to get arch installed