gentoo is less about compiling from source (I mean it can be about that too)
and more about having a lot of choice and really nice tooling.
it's in some ways a bunch more stable and declarative than arch.
packaging your own stuff is even easier and you can just have most packages be stable while only running unstable version of the packages you explicitly care about :)
it's a lot less scuffed in some ways while still giving you a lot of control and a lot of tools for declarative system management.
it's also waaay better documented.
it's comfy.
People calling themselves anarchists seem to reliably be less of a red flag than when they call themselves communists.
I think there's a lot of sentiment to sympathize with and a lot of ideas to learn about.
Implementation of anarchism seems hard and maybe sometimes a bit naïve, but on the other hand I don't actually understand the specifics nor is there any one opinion.
Anarvhism refers to a vlass of ideologies moreso than any one in specific.
Packaging rust is terrible, compiling rust is terrible. How can it be this awful? Why is the rust compiler so terrible?