Comment by eximius

I recommend installing Omarchy and playing with it. Read through the Omarchy repo to see how the things you liked and disliked were set up.

Then install arch or Cachy or some other Arch based distro and just use the parts you liked.

I am completely disinterested in the author's concerns because Omarchy was useful to me in demonstrating how to compose pieces into a useful whole in a relatively minimalist distribution like Arch. It is much easier to learn with good examples than just only reading DIY reference docs. (And they are good examples even if you dislike the targets of the apps installed - I agree on those points, but they're just not that important)