I agree. Arch really won me over with how they do things. Sometimes less is more.
Not splitting packages as much means that I can compile pretty much any program without thinking about dependencies most of the time.
Arch doesn’t autostart programs just because I downloaded them.
While I’m not necessarily attached to having the latest and greatest of every package. There are often times where I do want the latest and greatest of some package and it was out of date on point release distributions. (Before someone comments flatpak. The most important collection of software I want up to date is the Desktop Environemnt and my Desktop Environment of choice is KDE Plasma.)
Lastly, the pkgbuild format is dead simple and I have actually managed to roll my own packages compared to some other distros.