I've been using Arch for production for more than a decade. I have my own disciplines of maintenance of my arch boxes. I use etckeeper + version control of various configurations; I use as fewer AUR packages as possible; I use certificates instead of passwords; I limit privileges of all systemd services; I read doc + code if something goes wrong; I figure out everything about it before I fix it; if I can't patch the fix, I file bugs (to kernel, systemd, etc.); I even use UPS for power backup. Back to the story, i've already stated that CachyOS is "an Arch-based distro". As an Archer, he/she should understand that if he/she had to reach to the goal of completion of 'x86-64-v3' transition, this would be the the only way. What can the most 'negative consequence' be for those blindly followers? Just re-install, I guess, because they play Arch just for testing, curiosity, or fun. They don't care about their systems. They don't want to learn and grow up with Arch. They don't know about declarative, consistency, simplicity. They don't even understand what Arch really is about. Just go back to Ubuntu, Mint, Mac or Windows...I even don't think it's worthy to spend a single second in this conversation. I'd prefer discussing how to help Arch in its v3 transition, however please read the previous replies I got, none of them are not helpful.