Well, personal experiences differ and you may be right. I’m the last one to tell anybody what they should think. Perhaps I was expecting marvels when I first bought a SSD but I found the improvements not to be too impressive after having spent a lot of cash on one.
I’m not much into distro-hopping, at least not on my workhorse desktop PC, but I have this cheap laptop with not too much data to backup, so I thought, I might roam a bit outside my comfort zone. I was curious about trying an Arch based distribution and I thought, the screenshots in the article just looked awesome.
About the release date on distrowatch: This might be because it is a rolling release.
So far, I’m really happy with it as I am with the forum you mentioned.