When I was a teenager, running Arch for about a year in part to take advantage of patched/bleeding edge copies of WINE from the AUR, I decided Arch sucked and to try out Ubuntu (I'd mostly used Gentoo, Sabayon, and openSUSE previously).

Recreating the patched packages and setting up my own PPA for them was pretty much trivial. It did not take a whole day to figure out.

The Debian system is a little clunky, but it is not hard. If you're a user of Ubuntu or Fedora or openSUSE whatever, learning how to create DEB and RPM source packages and upload them to OBS or Launchpad is way less work than setting up Arch for the first time.