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That's quite a hyperbolic conclusion you've come to. It's not that deep and I'm not advocating everyone live their lives by this philosophy.
Remember that Arch Linux is a flavour of Linux and this particular flavour has a particular philosophy. If you want something prebuilt like Windows, there's Ubuntu, PopOS, Linux Mint, and a myriad of others. You don't have to go to the level of configuration that Arch does but being Linux, the option is open to you if you wish to dig into your system to see the cogs in motion.
I was basing my stance off the fact that you said the "know your system" philosophy is important, and that we the users should be in control. Which very much could be interpreted as everyone should live by it.
I suppose I could've signposted better that I was speaking in the context of Arch Linux but could be applied to any Linux distro. I wasn't speaking in a general sense just within the parameters of using a PC.