That's not a misconception, but with a slight modification. Stick around:

First of all, you can decide to do an upgrade at your own leisure. There's no need to run it 10 times a day as some memes will have you believe. I upgrade probably once a week, but I feel like that's a lot. If nothing is broken, no need to upgrade. Of course, I want to keep up with security updates and browser updates, so when those happen, I tend to upgrade too. So probably once every six weeks should be enough (keep up with the browser schedule).

Anyway, the modification I mentioned is that you don't need to follow anything. The only thing you should to do is to check archlinux.org for any news items before you upgrade. It's extremely rare that there are manual actions needed, and when there are, it's even more seldom for a package that I personally have installed. I think maybe once or twice in a decade I've had to actually do anything, and it's been minor. It always has the exact command or tells you exactly what to do. They never leave you on your own with these things.

A lot less maintenance than Windows back when I was running that, I'll tell you that much.