Distros based on others distros is nothing more than a pre-riced desktop forced upon everybody else with added tools and repositories that are more poorly managed than upstream, so of course you'll always end up with fragile as fuck "beginner" distros.

Hell, how many times did I meet people who switched to Linux Mint, and then switched back to WinDOS, and when they tried again with Arch or Artix they never looked back.
It's not because Arch-base is better, it's because Mint is too much like WinDOS, so newbies are likely to go like "what the fuck is the point of using something that is just like WinDOS, but with fewer software and software that is available is horribly outdated too?".