Yes, true, sure. Not to disagree with you, but just to say I'm pretty sure Manjaro (which is an Arch-derived distro with a bunch of packages/maybe bit of config chosen for you) can be GUI installed with whatever DE and probably never touch a shell just as well as Ubuntu or whatever.

Saying that actually you could achieve the same thing with `arch-install` which is now bundled in Arch's official images, you'd only briefly have to deal with its TUI option-based interactive installation, nothing manual.