I had much worse time trying to debug Debian-based distros, as they’re much more complex and hard to understand
That's interesting. This thread has piqued my interest wrt Debian, so this will be a useful bit of information to consider moving forward.
If you need additional security for your install if it’s critical, consider setting up snapshots.
I am a bit familiar with snapshots--I have them set up on my current setup and have used them to recover from mistakes in the past. I'll be looking into them more as there's probably some good stuff out there that I don't know about yet. Thanks.