My Linux usage was: Ubuntu, then Arch, then I got tired of it and took a break from Linux. I found Fedora KDE in 2017 and been using it ever since. Only reinstalled once to switch to btrfs and it went surprisingly smooth.
I like Arch, and I love the wiki, but I appreciate sane defaults and ease of use. I’d rather optimize down than pull features out of repos.
Another distro I’d check would be Suse, or one of the immutables, starting with the Fedora KDE one. When I have time for it.