If for you it is a matter of customization go ahead and use whatever you want.
I am speaking about the rock solid base (first of all the package manager) over which Arch and other serious distributions (Gentoo, Slackware, Alpine...) are built. Also their communities are made by compentent people. Manjaro is born to make easy something which has its own complexity: in my opinion this is exactly the opposite of the Arch KISS philosophy.
Linux is customizable. so is there not a way to customize manjaro or ubuntu?
Answer is yes they can be customized. It's users choice, right? for eg we can remove gnome and add MATE in ubuntu.
I think there is need for better discussion than just dismissing everything and saying arch or nothing.
If for you it is a matter of customization go ahead and use whatever you want.
I am speaking about the rock solid base (first of all the package manager) over which Arch and other serious distributions (Gentoo, Slackware, Alpine...) are built. Also their communities are made by compentent people. Manjaro is born to make easy something which has its own complexity: in my opinion this is exactly the opposite of the Arch KISS philosophy.
I don't really want to try Arch on my main machine as It is my only machine.
So will persistent bootable USB with arch Linux a good start?