May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?
Yes and no to all of those reasons, and many others.
There isn’t a right or wrong way to install/use Linux. As the saying goes “you do you”. If going through the Arch learning curve doesn’t appeal to you, don’t do it. If you’re the sort of person whose curiosity sometimes leads them to do silly things that aren’t necessarily logical but that you find enormously fun and satisfying, then maybe go for it.