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With my arch experience, there has been a few big deal manual interventions but nothing that has bricked my install. At the worst, you boot to a terminal so you can fix it.
It usually goes like this for me:
BAM
open www.archlinux.org on my phone
tinker tinker reboot
I will say that I have had to learn that I need to pay attention when a new kernel is released, because I somehow get it before the video driver is also updated, it will be broken after reboot
Maybe try the DKMS version of your video drivers? It automatically rebuilds every time you install a new kernel. For Nvidia the package is
nvidia-dkms. I don't use AMD (yet) but I guess the package name would be something similar.But yes, it is a good idea to babysit your installation and pay attention to errors/warnings during the update. It is also a good idea to periodically check Arch news for breaking changes.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
https://archlinux.org/news/