> Though in recent years I've found Arch to be way more stable with very few updates causing major problems.

Can confirm. I've had the same Arch install for nearly 6 years now. I've borked it only once in that time, and that one was my fault for not reading the news first. Fixed it in < 5 minutes.

And I've made considerable changes in that time, including moving the entire installation from one hard disk to another.