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It's not OK. It's a Milquetoast way of further harming X11 users without having users abandon the DE wholesale.
Oh No! I have to install a package!
If only. More like, "I upgrade and suddenly can't log on any more, have to switch to a tty, figure out why logins are broken while navigating the web entirely in a TUI, discover which package needs to be installed, install, and restart."
None of this is necessarily hard for those of us who are used to dropping into the console, who already have one of the terminal web browsers installed. It's no issue for me, because I don't use KDE or Gnome.
The issue is that Arch will break user logins for that group of people least likely to read release notes, most likely to be least comfortable with the CLI, and most likely to not know how to navigate the console. It's the most harmful to the group least equipped to fix it.
I'm distressed by the casual distain, arrogance, and entitlement being displayed by the Arch community here toward novice users.
If you are using arch and do not subscribe to the rss feed, then it is on you. As described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Upgrading_the_system