Just my .02. I was a long time Arch derivative user. In fact I stopped distro hopping for years after landing on Manjaro. Sometime in the last year I moved on to Garuda and CachyOS when I had separate gaming and home rigs (eventually combined the two). I just switched to Fedora this week. Why? I’d forgotten over all that time that a solid non-breaking Arch based distro is not the same thing as a solid desktop.
I use my desktop now for a business and I just wanted to slow down the updates and get back to that ready to go out of the box feel vs tinkering. No Manjaro, CachyOS etc. aren’t Arch level of tinkering but sometimes you might need to install something from the AUR and it doesn’t work and other things of that nature. Also speaking of the AUR that mishap with the bad Chrome package spooked me into looking to get back to repos, debs/rpms from the vendor and Flatpaks or Snaps.
So I decided to do a little research and since Bazzite and Nobara were based on Fedora I checked out it’s gaming performance. It looked to be just a hair behind CachyOS and after doing some minimal testing (Cyberpunk benchmark) it seems to do very well on my hardware. The balance of a little more stability while still having access to newer packages plus Fedora’s rather dev centric positioning has tipped me over to Fedora for now. And it’s funny because Fedora used to always be the distro I’d leave the quickest but it appears they’ve really progressed (along with KDE) over all of these years.