I would have agreed till recently. I ran Manjaro without a hitch for a long stretch of time, maybe 7 years. Then one day the hybrid laptop would not recognize the external monitor. I spent quite a bit of time debugging it, and finally concluded I was done with Manjaro. I entered a distro jump journey I hadn't done since... forever. And after about 2 days of fulltime work (more or less) sacrificed to testing distros, I realized nothing would prevent problems like this one from appearing again. I cannot waste days without my main machine being operational.

I bought a desktop, and forgot about that laptop.

But my trust in linux got dented there. I'm happy you have had a good run, I did too. The risk is too high for me to jump into 'debugging linux problems' mode at a random time. I cannot afford the disruption and downtime.