It's really only meaningfully used as the first thing by virtually anyone.
Arch's whole identity as a distro is that of a coworker who is capable and competent at all the most useful aspects of his job whilst being completely useless at things which ultimately don't matter so you ignore his body odor, taste in music, and mismatched socks.
Nobody obtains security by watching the package script flash through their terminal just like nobody gains anything useful by doing a manual install at the terminal. These don't matter because you can use a script to install arch and use a helper script the same way you use apt.
Arch's whole identity as a distro is that of a coworker who is capable and competent at all the most useful aspects of his job whilst being completely useless at things which ultimately don't matter so you ignore his body odor, taste in music, and mismatched socks.
Nobody obtains security by watching the package script flash through their terminal just like nobody gains anything useful by doing a manual install at the terminal. These don't matter because you can use a script to install arch and use a helper script the same way you use apt.