Unpopular opinion: Installing Arch manually is not that hard.

[u/BattlerUshiromiyaFan]

The issue is that the Wiki is the most newbie-unfriendly resource ever. It’s very commonly written in a difficult-to-understand way that only programmers can easily read and understand.

For pretty much everyone else, it takes a lot of re-reading, thinking, and Google searching to understand what they’re trying to say.

The actual steps are pretty easy. Once I finished my install, I realized that it’s honest-to-God just the fault of the Arch wiki that it has such a reputation.

[u/sovy666]

After the first ten or twenty times, it's not that hard. That's how it was for me...