Unless something major changed, you're dropped to a terminal as soon as you boot the install image, and have to either have advanced knowledge on what to do from there, or have the wiki side-by-side on another device. And unless you're taking incredible notes at the same time, good luck replicating the set-up if you need to reinstall.
Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, and most other mainstream distros at least boot you into a GUI to install.
I once had my computer crash during a kernel update and this left the system unbootable. All you have to do is use the arch iso and arch-chroot into your system to rerun/undo the kernel update or whatever other update broke your system. The thing is, even a "reinstall" is merely about deleting packages and then rerunning pacman and reinstalling your bootloader. Your /home and /etc stay untouched. You can take the list of installed packages and then install those. I mostly needed that when moving from an old laptop to a new one.
I'd rather nuke from orbit and rebuild than duct-tape holes :p
Manjaro may have some hope: it's received a lot of criticism for the odd way the maintainers have set up some aspects of the distro, especially from Arch users. I've seen HN threads full of comments saying things like "why on earth would anyone use Manjaro when you can use Arch?". Those commenters miss the selling point of Manjaro: it's a rolling release for Ubuntu's target audience, and that target audience want one important thing Arch does not offer:
- an officially supported, opinionated installer of a fully configured Desktop environment