Fedora also bundles a bunch of software by default for a nice desktop experience for new users that you wouldn’t get with only Gnome on Arch. The difference is quite big, I’ve used both and Arch is way leaner even with a full install of the Gnome desktop.
True so yet all of them have the same/similar background services/daemons/applications, so the comparison is still valid though it will be distro-specific.
I cannot physically test all the distros and their permutations, and then there are some user-defined ones such as Gentoo or LFS.
