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No personal experience with Fedora but if that'd been your experience why not shift to Arch (btw) or something similar. Been daily driving for 3~4 years, super stable and always on latest releases.
Had the same experience when I used Arch. It is way easier to use an LTS kernel there at least. But nah I’m all in on the immutable OS at this point. I used to use NixOS but could never get my piece of shit printer to work. Totally fine out of the box on Fedora.
Simply not true all the time especially if you tinker a bit with your machine. I've had Arch installs fail after huge updates more than once in my lifetime.
OP is talking about dreading major kernel updates because shit might break. I'm not talking about tinkering (though I'd argue against that point too, btrfs and timeshift exist).
Arch updates so often I barely even notice a kernel update; I'm certainly not dreading it.
Also side point, super huge updates on arch are normally an indication that you didn't perform a full system update in a while. If things are going to break it's when you dont perform regular system maintenance.