Imo it’s better that you wait, you could try installing vanilla Arch in a vm and distrohop once you’re ready, if PopOS is suiting all your needs imo there’s no reason to get Arch on bare metal (A vm for fun and learning would be satisfying ig), on a side note, getting the proprietary NVIDIA driver to run is very simple in vanilla Arch (like a 4 steps or so)
It’s not about including, it’s about forcing, my laptop still has an HDD and when that garbage dropped I kept my laptop idle (couldn’t use it since HDD usage was rocking 100%) for like 6 freaking hours, my HDD isn’t that empty either so I don’t know what the heck my PC was doing