I switched over to Nobara, from Garuda, on my desktop. I was using Nobara because I have a M$ Surface Pro 4, and wanted a distro with the linux-surface stuff baked into the kernel, what with being lazy and all.
Thinking I might switch back to Garuda for my DT pc, just liked it better. Nobara runs most everything I need it to fine. Just having the same distro on a load of different devices is a bit dull.
I went from Nobara to Garuda. My biggest concern was that it was maintained by one (very awesome) dude. It's generally great. I decided to go with Garuda because I like the workflow of Arch but didn't want to spend a day setting it up. Also, I gained some noticeable performance on the few games I play.
I didn't notice any performance changes in gaming myself, with the one exception of the Metro games, which had really bad screen tearing. That said I have an NVIDIA gfx card sooooo......
Definitely having just G-eggroll as the sole maintainer of Nobara is a bit worrying. The reason I'm switching back to Garuda is definitely about workload of Arch over Fedora. I'm also a big fan of not spending 8hrs manually configuring Arch.
Amazing wallpaper and look in general. I share your enthusiasm. I also was a distro-hopper and Garuda is the one that made me settle a long time ago. Amazing performance even in low end devices. I use it in a Lenovo yoga11e with a Celeron and even that runs smooth. Hope you share your wallpaper :D