If you update your OS, it could happen that a changed dependency breaks your app. This wouldn’t happen with docker, as every dependency is shipped with the application in the container.

aren’t they working on rewriting the thing in go?

I guess you could also Mount a tmpfs to that directory

That’s the neat part: you don’t have to take the icky parts. Just use artix instead of arch to not use systemd

are you trying to say that this is a bad thing?

Switch to SearxNG instead