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You mean "can you remove systemd"? Short answer: yes.
Should you do it? Only if you're fucking insane.
Just use Artix if you care that much
? you can? I'd rather start without it, than try to remove it.
Why do you say that?
Or Devuan (or any devuan respin), or CRUX, or Gentoo, or VoidLinux, or Slackware, or GuixSD, or Loc-OS, or Alpine, or Joborun, or Hyperbola, or Parabola, or Venom, or PCLinuxOS, or GoboLinux, or SulinOS, or KISS Linux, or Carbs Linux, or LigurOS, or Dragora, or GlaucusLinux, or NutyX, or AntiX, or MXLinux, or Slitaz, or Puppy (or any pup respins), or PuffOS, or TinyCore, or Slax, or Chimera, or NXOS, or Peppermint, or LFS, or CalculateLinux, or RedCore Linux, or Obarun, or BedrockLinux, 4MLinux, or Absolute Linux, or Austrumi Linux, or BharOS, or CalyxOS, or Damn Small Linux, or DivestOS, or Dyne:bolic, or e, or Knoppix, or Kwort Linux, or LibreCMC, or LightOS, or LineageOS, or Nanolinux, or Porteus, or Salix, or Source Mage, or VectorLinux, or Vine Linux, or Zenwalk, or Zeroshell, or...
... Or any of the BSDs, or SerenityOS, or any of the AROS distros, or the one Ironclad distro (Gloire), or any of the OpenSolaris distros, or ReactOS, or Redox, or Kolibrios, or SculptOS, or Plan9/9Front, or Haiku, or...
... Did I miss any? [Edit... oh, I missed dozens]
It's not like there's just one, nor even just an "insane" few, to avoid systemd. Contrary to the corporate encouraged misinfo smears going around.
Even if one is insistent users stay in the arch cult, there are like half a dozen options.
I prefer freedom of choice.
Long live init-freedom.
Defy group-think dogma.
[PS, I do like the play on "Just use Mint". ;)]
I say insane because Arch is very much not made to run without systemd, and you would need to make a lot of changes to make it work without it.
So, as you say, just choose a distro without systemd