I thought you needed to handle every single component of Arch except for the ones you've mentioned which I see a good amount of people using and whatnot. I guess there's a lot more tech entusiasts than I can tell, which is definitely a good side for me.
Basic arch's difficulty is that it installs jack for you, to the point of stupidity to a extent imo, it's entirely possible to install arch without network drivers or even i believe a display adapter, hence why i almost never suggest installing vanilla arch unless you want to challenge yourself to build your system yourself.
So 99.9% of all distros are based on 3 specific root distros, which are based on the linux kernel, the main differences between the 3 are update schedule and root package manager and keywords usually (stuff like rpm and yay, if you rarely touch the terminal you won't see this much), they are in order of update schedule from safest to fastest:
1.Debian, by far the root distro with the most spin-off distros, debian is designed for stability, even more stability than windows when microsoft isn't messing stuff up, ubuntu, linux mint, and the gaming based pika os are based on debian, debian as i said before has the slowest update schedule sometimes not updating core components for months.
2.Fedora, fedora is technically a spin off of red hat enterprise for the non enterprise market but became bigger than red hat itself over time, it's something of a middle ground on the update schedule between debian and arch, distros most known from the fedora pipeline are nobara and bazzite, fedora has the smallest amount of distro spins.
3.Arch, arch is bleeding edge and all that entails, it usually updates integral files like gpu drivers and even the linux kernel within a week of release, arch has the second biggest amount of spin off distros, notable ones are all basically easier to install and use versions of arch (usually with software centers to make it even easier), endeavor os, gaming based garuda linux and catch all current favorite of the gaming community cachy os, i believe the more work based omarchy is also based on arch.
I will say this outright, never install base arch unless you want to build basically a arch based distro from kind of scratch, there are definitely reasons to do it if you know exactly what your doing, but for most users who want a working system it's not worth it unless you want to learn or challenge yourself.
Now there are other distros not based off the big 3, like open mandriva, gentoo and slackware, but that's a different topic and of the 3 i think the spins of these don't even make up .1% of the linux distro market.
