Well it is not “that dead” or dead “by definition”. It is rather relative to here.
Well, yes, I agree this is absolutely the most important feature of any distro.
I have seen some “other” distro (Arch based) and it was a good distro, and was very user friendly, honestly I liked it (at the beginning) but after like 2 or 3 months on their forum I felt like the poor “just a user” is like a second grade or even a third grade citizen and they were rather arrogant and rude. Their standard answer was RTFM. I even posted in the joke of the day thread here thread part of a chat thread there, (I remember a friend here replied to it asking me if I am sure this was the real conversation) A little joke on a regular day - #2233 by ricklinux , he couldn’t believe it could be real. So. I am done with it. (guess which… lol)