I have never used emacs or org mode but I know enough about SAP to find that horrifying…

Arch, everything it does provide works extremely well, I can configure everything how I want it without having to fight a distro maintainer trying to be clever, I get new features and bugfixes whenever they go in without having to worry about a distro maintainer deciding whether it’s relevant or whether I should just live with crashes and security issues for another two years because they figured it wasn’t important or critical enough.

Sadly it’s probably nearly impossible to get representative data but I am strongly suspecting the majority of cases of things “randomly” breaking are either because of rando stuff installed from the AUR, or messing with things without understanding the implications of doing so.