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For me there is only two distros. They are Arch an Debian. But that is only me. I don't think that any of those distros are overreted they just have their own user types and needs.
This is also me and there's definitely other distros I wouldn't use that would be helpful for a certain use case. Like NixOS for multiple systems.
Even still, there's tons of distros that are essentially X but with more preinstalled packages. It takes knowledge, but if the unique parts of the distro can be replicated in 10 minutes, what's the point? Just make scripts for one of the mainline distros. Or make the main distro suck a little less and install your graphics drivers for you so there's no need for a separate image or script.