but quite frankly... what's the deal with all these reviews looking at the installation, the default skin, and calling it a day?
Why aren't any reviews talking about the performance considerations, file system and snapshots considerations, stability considerations, and comparing it to other Arch distros? That would actually be useful.
And the range of services that you offer here, perhaps you could advertise it more. Not a single review mentioned any of it.
Having a clean/modern distro website is a big plus, makes me trust the devs more to polish the details. I personally wouldn't try a distro whose website looks like it came out of the 90's.