I have a similar experience. I have a 2005 Fujitsu LifeBook S2110 I keep for sentimental purposes. I installed Arch on it in ~2015, and I've been upgrading it ever since. I've had 2-3 breakages over the years, but every time I've just googled the issue and found an obvious solution to resolve the issue. I've been so happy with the Arch rolling release that I now use it on my main daily driver desktop. I switched over full time from macOS last year.