Atlantis "nauseating" distrowatch comment: pacnew merging?

[Kresimir]

This was already posted twice on the forum:

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Version: 21.4 Rating: 4 Date: 2021-12-06 Votes: 0 With Atlantis, EndeavourOS is effectively turning itself into a point release, employing distro-specific changes that completely gut the reasons most users prefer a rolling release distribution. It’s nauseating. Compared to vanilla EndeavourOS requires significantly more pacnew merging and manual intervention through upgrades due to middleman patches. Something that hasn’t been required on Arch since 10/23/2020. What was once just another w…

This guy kind of triggered me

Speaking of blabbering… I’ve yet to try Atlantis as I’m perfectly fine with my current EndeavourOS, so out of curiosity I’ve read the latest user reviews at distrowatch, and was wondering if any of this is true: "With Atlantis, EndeavourOS is effectively turning itself into a point release, employing distro-specific changes that completely gut the reasons most users prefer a rolling release distribution. It’s nauseating. Compared to vanilla EndeavourOS requires significantly more pacnew mergin…