"I have a minor inconvenience -- I know, I'll create an entirely new distribution where 99.92% is identical to the base"
Being able to roll back updates/upgrades that go wrong, is not just fixing a minor inconvenience. There's also something about the critical part of the system being less mutable. Desktop Linux has been way too easy to break in the past.
How else are you going to improve the linux gene pool? Breeding linux distros ain't gonna cut it :)