haven't tried arch but afaik it's a distro that lets the user control everything, like gentoo or slackware. that's actually an easier system to manage if you know what you're doing and have something you want in mind.
is it? i mean it's possible for 'ai' to create a unique combination of stuff it was 'trained on' due to its randomness. imo the 'idea' just depends on human interpretation
i guess M$ is just deprecating that whole gatherosstate thing because of Y2k38, not exactly targeting MAS. If they are they would've removed their github repo and patched the hwid glitch.
mine was online, but it's pretty buggy recently.