Yeah same. I think the release cycle actually doesn't matter at all. The reason for it is that the majority of breakage are caused by components/extensions of gnome and kde and non-DE-yet-complex software in distros with a lot of those present out of the box, like manjaro, breaking backwards compatibility every other week.

When people switch to arch they typically set things up from scratch, end up choosing simple tools and avoid most of the unstable stuff distros push onto you.