I normally steer clear of these articles as I long ago realized the "perfect distro" was like the best flavor of ice cream: contentiously debatable and variable by individual.

I got sucked in tho and actually enjoyed the article, despite it concluding that there is no perfect distro.

For me I've settled on Fedora and am extremely happy. I went the Arch/Gentoo route for years and also went the Ubuntu/Mint/Debian/Elementary/etc route. I learned more about Linux/open source using Arch than anything, and loved how customized and hackable my system was. The rolling nature was great until it wasn't (breakage and unpredictability paired with Murphy's Law). Ubuntu et al were too slow moving. Old software, strange hacks in the kernel that made custom kernels/modules difficult to use (it's gotten better the last couple of years ftr), and PPAs were a must but often broke upgrades requiring nuke & pave.

What I found was Fedora is the perfect middle ground: quite bleeding edge in many ways without being a rolling distro and upgrading your gnome suddenly without warning, but fast enough moving that I rarely notice any outdated packages. It's a "just works" install but super easy to tweak and customize in any way desired. Much of the Arch wiki (my favorite thing about being on Arch next to the AUR) is also mostly applicable to Fedora since they follow similar conventions. If you manage RHEL/CentOS servers in any way for work, it also gives you a chance to get intimately familiar with the next round of improvements coming your way in enterprise Linux.

Disclaimer: I work at Red Hat but I've been a Fedora user much longer than I've worked at RH