While this makes Arch Linux look bad right now, I recall how many years ago Gentoo was leading the pack with regards to having many clever people on board. Then came Arch Linux and eventually it put Gentoo as a second tier distribution. Arch has a lot of momentum; I myself am using Manjaro right now, primarily because it makes many things - including compiling from source - simple. As simple as Slackware, before Slackware fossilized (it's still alive of course, but just look at the most recent ISO release, then you'll understand the problem; when a distribution is no longer able to release .iso files, then it is in my book dead).
