Gentoo.
Ain't nobody got time for dat!
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Having Gentoo update overnight is no big deal. Even better, just leave a core or two free and let updates run while you use the machine anyway!
That being said, Gentoo is definitely a time commitment and I completely understand that it's a particular taste.
Building from source does provide a lot of advantages though, and I don't mean faster binaries.
I was using Manjaro until the day my install started giving me problems.with dependencies and duplicated packages (?), so I went with Fedora and it's been smooth so far.
Ubuntu: it's not bad, I just don't like canonical
Manjaro: it starts as arch but more user friendly (by being preconfigured), until it inevitably breaks (being arch) and you end up with a regular arch that you don't know how is configured
Elementary os: it's too elementary os
All those con distros that are just a bunch of reskinned free stuff ask you money for that. Like zorin os
Having used both Manjaro and Arch, Manjaro breaking has nothing to do with Arch. Arch is far more stable.