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Don't know why folks are downvoting you, but you aren't wrong.
They've never heard of Archinstall or BTRFS system snapshots.
OP isn't experienced in any way. He/ she probably only used EndeavourOS because it looks cool out of the box.
Arch and arch based distros are fine by itself, but not if you want something reliable and dislike the CLI, like they mentioned. That's just a recipe for desaster!
In my personal opinion, you should either install "real" Arch or no Arch at all. The main pro of it is the extreme customization if you set it up yourself when you know what you're doing, but by using something pre-configured you have all the disadvantages but no advantage.
For the AUR, I just use distrobox, safely from my immutable Fedora Silverblue base. I still get the newest Arch stuff, without having to worry about a broken system tomorrow.
We now almost convinced OP to use Mint or Silverblue, since they're waay easier to maintain and are more robust.
He wanted something that just works and have very straightforward updates. On Arch you should read Arch News and check the output from updates to make sure no manual intervention is required, you need to understand Pacsave/Pacnew files, etc. One can coast along for a while without this but one day things can suddenly get funny.