Figured it out. (kinda I think)
Suspicion
So I think someone is lying~
EVER SINGLE ONE of 1000+ mirrors are currently syncing.
Their completion_pct is always < 1 which makes sense, the Arch package repo must be very very busy, there is no posible way that you could ever reach 100% sync and keep it for longer than a few minutes before something changes.
Either mirror.cyberbits.asia has a direct fabric link up to the master repo or they are lying.
This present a problem for the reflector because it is set (by default) to only consider 100% synced repos.
Fix
The fix is simple, just add --completion-percent 98 to the alias commands in ~/.config/fish/fish.config!
Now all the reflector commands should result in more than 3 results!
Update
There is still the issue of garuda-update
I needed to modify /usr/lib/garuda/garuda-update/main-update to include --completion-percent 98 on reflector and --completion 0.98 for rate-mirros (default)
After that I did (a stupidly fast) update of over 300+ packages!
I wonder if this has always been an issue for me, I have never had a big update be so fast!
Post Note
IDK how hard it is to determine the Country Code for the system in the update script but I get shafted pretty hard with rate-mirrors default starting country of US
For Comparison:
rate-mirrors --entry-country ZA arch --completion 0.98
# RE-TESTING TOP MIRRORS
# [ZA] SpeedTestResult { speed: 20.62 MB/s; elapsed: 1.000321431s; connection_time: 108.001558ms }
# [ZA] SpeedTestResult { speed: 11.61 MB/s; elapsed: 324.656966ms; connection_time: 36.170813ms }
# [ZA] SpeedTestResult { speed: 11.65 MB/s; elapsed: 1.000240086s; connection_time: 13.233233ms }
# [KE] SpeedTestResult { speed: 3.10 MB/s; elapsed: 1.000071538s; connection_time: 119.224697ms }
# [KE] SpeedTestResult { speed: 2.91 MB/s; elapsed: 997.683285ms; connection_time: 336.652954ms }
~ 40 MB/s aggregate on top 5
rate-mirrors arch --completion 0.98
# RE-TESTING TOP MIRRORS
# [ZA] SpeedTestResult { speed: 11.59 MB/s; elapsed: 300.976466ms; connection_time: 35.371243ms }
# [MU] SpeedTestResult { speed: 5.50 MB/s; elapsed: 999.254375ms; connection_time: 96.943848ms }
# [IN] SpeedTestResult { speed: 1.24 MB/s; elapsed: 998.136977ms; connection_time: 505.120506ms }
# [PL] SpeedTestResult { speed: 492.93 KB/s; elapsed: 930.155587ms; connection_time: 1.60249554s }
# [ZA] SpeedTestResult { speed: 11.65 MB/s; elapsed: 1.000226545s; connection_time: 12.814089ms }
~ 29 MB/s aggregate on top 5
Not sure if you can modify it to take that into account but I can confirm, for me. it is a major speedup.