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That's a bit overblown, even on Arch you basically install CUPS, start it, plug in your printer and you're good to go with most printers, especially IPP ones. Even autodiscovery with mDNS works! Just need to be on the same WiFi network and the printers just show up in the list.
It's one of the things that usually is a better experience than Windows, because Windows printing is absolutely ancient and hasn't been upgraded in forever.
Was going to say that, CUPS is great, have had less issues with printers in linux than windows, worked flawlessly when I was troubleshooting a 20+ year old office grade LaserJet for my in-laws (which turned out to be a weird issue with the hub it was plugged into and windows 10 waking from sleep as far as I could tell) and also just works with the older network laser printer I have now.