CachyOS actually grew a lot through 2025.
They reported: Discord: 20,500 members (+355.6%) Reddit: 30,000 members (+867.7%) Forum: 8,500 members (+466.7%)
And that "ISO downloads reached a peak of 133.000 per month and a total of 847.000". Pretty impressive.
Personally I prefer having Battle.net in Lutris (or something else like Bottles) even if you can run it through Steam. I just dislike using a launcher to open another launcher and Lutris avoids that.
I can understand that the Steam method would be a little easier for some people, but using Lutris for something as popular as Battle.net is really easy too. You just click "Add" and search for "Battle.net" and it does the rest automatically, even downloading the installer. The only thing to be aware of is that you should close the launcher when it gets to the point you are asked to log in which completes the installation, but Lutris tells you that as well.
To me it's alright solely because of Heroic Games Launcher that covers the Epic Store and GOG. I must admit I rarely end up playing the games from Epic, but they do give away some really good games from time to time. To be clear, I would probably never actually buy anything from Epic for a few different reasons, but getting free games is cool.