Package manager quality matters way more than people admit, and it's the main reason I've stuck with Arch for years now. Pacman is just smooth, the AUR is insane, and when something breaks you can actually figure out why without digging through ten layers of abstraction. I get that stability is important and Debian people aren't wrong, but there's a real difference between a distro that's stable because nothing ever changes and one that's stable because the maintainers actually know what they're doing. That said, your Void setup sounds legitimately smart for a laptop, I've heard the runit init system cuts through a lot of bloat that systemd just kind of carries around by default. The software support thing is huge though, because at some point you'll want to install something obscure and if your distro doesn't have it packaged and the AUR equivalent is missing, you're building from source or dealing with flatpak, which feels like cheating. Basically I look for a distro where the community and package maintainers actually give a shit, because that's what keeps things working when you need them to.