Maybe a mix of tribalism and sunk-cost fallacy. People want to feel like the made the right choice regarding platform, while justifying the money they put in a probably closed ecosystem.

Younger, I was 11 when I watched The Exorcist (1973). Oh boy, I was scared to sleep in the dark for like a month

Up to a couple of days ago was using arch linux, now using opensuse tumbleweed.

So far I got the same experience in both, and most of the issues I got were related to my poor understanding on how to properly setup Hyprland when using a minimal installation setup.

I guess the distro itself wont make that much difference.