When you ask such a question within the circle making the decision you get a few defensive answers and then you get a storm of fan-boys/dogs defending their masters’ choice. Objectiveness tends to get lost in a discussion on who is asking and their mother.

So I thought of asking in a more neutral environment, and reddit r/linux is not it.

freerdp xrdp if on X11

Maybe it is time to try something without systemd and since you liked pacman then artix obarun joborun … parabola hyperbola (if you are into strict free software) may be good bets.