Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.
I used to be on pure Arch for 2.5 years, but currently uses cachyOS. And its so much removes the pain points of arch, as well as giving super fast performance.
The following PR actually implements a desktop like UI for firefox android.Hope it will be in atleast beta soon.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/pull/5218#issuecomment-1966233109
The slowness with libretube mostly origin from the server/instance you selected ( i am not sure though ). Maybe try a different instance ?
This picture somehow reminds me of Mad Max movies.