I used Arch for a few years on desktop (granted that was over ten years ago), and if I didn't update frequently enough, updates would routinely break. I would never use it on a server because of that. RedHat and Debian exist for a reason.
Interesting. I have never run into that issue. Sometimes I do not upgrade for months, yet everything works after I do. Are you sure it is not a matter of archlinux-keyring? You have to update it first. Plus, you have to check out their website because once in a blue moon, breaking changes happen.
For the record, I have been running Arch Linux many years ago as well for desktop, and the only issue I ran into was related to not having updated archlinux-keyring before downloading other updates. This is most likely solved though, because it is no longer an issue. I see sometimes that there is a new version of it and it seems to work without updating it first, but to be honest, I always update archlinux-keyring first as a "just in case". Old habit.
