Hard disagree. There are often updates which require more manual intervention than just “press update button”. Looking at Known issues and solutions in the current stable announcement thread we’ve had these in the last couple of months alone, there are plenty more if you go back further and there will be plenty more in the future.
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Pacman will ask you whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units. We recommend picking the default. (For even more fun there was a bug in the pamac gui which resulted in asking you to choose and then giving you no choices. Not confusing at all, albeit the default selection was fine for most anyway).
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grub 2.12 may need manual post install by the user
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Broken Wifi with 6.1.66 and 6.6.5 kernels
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Linux 6.5, which came on some official Manjaro images because 6.1 LTS had problems with recent AMD gpus, is EOL. So manual installation of Linux 6.6 is required.
OP, if you’re happy to provide this kind of IT support for your users then go for it, but I suggest reading this first.