Arch is not dumb shit and recommending it to beginners is fine if they are curious and want to learn about stuff.
Recommending Arch to people who just want a working machine is silly, and stuff like Gentoo is kind of dumb shit.
But if you want a simple “it just works” distro you should probably be using Mint or Pop! or similar, and avoiding trying to do anything unnecessarily advanced unless you are cool with reading manuals and so on.
I have a 2022 mid-range laptop which does work with Windows 11, but sounds like a jet engine when I try to run it.
I also have Arch installed, which runs silently 80% of the time, with moderate fan usage the other 20%.
As you may expect from this, 11 is typically sluggish, especially under load; whereas Arch is typically quick and responsive, with moments of lag noticeable but infrequent.
Under the circumstances, using 11 would be a terrible choice. There’s just no reason to subject my device to it.
For business usage, it’s really just Debian and Red Hat as options, along with their derivatives. For personal use, add Arch to the list.
Other distros exist but people don’t generally need to worry about them, their stability or compatibility, etc. This includes developers as well as users.
It’s the paradox of wanting Linux to be widely supported but not wanting it to become a walled garden experience. The average consumer is not keen on “different” and “complex” and designing all of Linux around the preferences of those average consumers would mean sacrificing the advanced features and customisation power users enjoy.