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well you can never be 100% certain your laptop won't spontaneously die either.
for any new arch user, i do recommend keeping an archiso live USB around in case something really does happen - since every arch user should know the basics of how it works, it should be easy enough to recover as well.
knowing that, i really only check the news out of curiosity, since i'm not a grub user i haven't had arch be unbootable since i started using it years ago. even if it did i'm confident enough it'd be a quick fix.
Then I never want to see you telling someone they should've checked the news file before updating!