It's hard to take the rest of your comment seriously when you don't seem to have a basic understanding of the parts involved here. Arch's distribution model isn't at all like npm (which I guess is what you're actually talking about here), but the AUR specifically is pretty similar to npm. But the AUR isn't Arch's main distribution model, and the official Arch repositories contain a ton of packages in the core, so not even the "barebones core" is correct here.
Arch has pretty much lived off the experience of its users, which is the entire purpose and value-proposition of the OS. You want someone else to be responsible, you're welcome to use the countless of other distributions, Arch is quite literally not the OS for a "Don't read anything and press Update, hope for the best" experience, and I hope the core team continues to push back against that, which they've done for decades at this point.
It's sad, because overall you have a point somewhere there but the big misconceptions kind of hide that message though.
I don't think that narrative is supported by the numbers. Arch's repositories are about a magnitude smaller than either the AUR or "batteries included" distributions like Debian. (about 10k to 100k packages), there are more people using Arch derivatives than arch, and according to some community polls, granted I can't verify their methodology, something north of 90% of arch users use the AUR.
If you look at the most popular packages in the AUR, it's the most popular web browsers, virtually every VPN client, popular professional software like davinci, incredibly popular messaging clients, Spotify, Zoom, billion+ userbase software and the vast majority of password managers.
And if you look at who maintains those, it isn't the company, in many cases it's a random pseudonymous user who doesn't show up on Google. And I don't get this strange aggressive tone of suggesting I use something else. I do already, because as should be obvious I think that's a bonkers security model, but it deserves to be pointed out.
I do not think that the majority of people running arch today in practice realizes that their password manager they installed from that repo everyone uses is managed by an absolutely random person on the internet.
[1]https://canartuc.medium.com/more-than-5-million-users-trust-...