AUR tends to work really well for me. There are binary packages for almost every software that I use. Things do go wrong occasionally, but when they do it’s almost always solvable. AUR packages are just scripts, so you can go and fix the problem yourself and then tell the maintainer how you did it.
Arch + i3wm on my work laptop and I love it. Super functional.
I got a refresh/new laptop and they put Ubuntu on it. Really miss Arch’s repos & package manager. Probably will switch it at some point.