I am, I really like it. The installer is very friendly so it's not such a heavy lift to get started with as base Arch Linux. The Arch package base is really great, I can install almost everything from repository at it's latest stable version, and the few things that are not in there are can be found...

I used it for a while and I did not notice a substantial gain in performance compared to other distros.

One factual thing that explains the split opinions here: most of CachyOS's speed claim comes from its package builds, and those only help if your CPU qualifies. They rebuild Arch packages for x86-64-v3 (their wiki says 5–20% uplift vs generic x86-64), x86-64-v4 (AVX-512) and Zen 4/5. On an older ...