Here's my thought:

• It could be the only rolling release distro that supports secure boot out of the box (correct me if I am wrong). People who doesn't want to mess with too much BIOS settings can just plug in the installation media, changing the boot order, and they're good to go.

• It has some packages optimized in x86-64-v3. So, that's a free performance gain without any procedure required from the user side. For example, with darktable currently, if you run ldd /usr/bin/darktable | grep x86-64-v3, you will see many x86-64-v3 optimized libs. Great!

• All the major web browsers, e.g. Google Chrome, MS Edge, and Brave, provide the repo for openSUSE officially, contrary to Arch where none of the official repo are available. So, for Arch based distros, the users have to use those browsers in a Tumbleweed container to get the browsers straight from the official sources.

• The official package manager, Myrlyn, is a must to have. I don't have to remember many zypper commands for simple package management, or even when I just want to search and see package's details.

• It's backed by a corporation, as an upstream for the backer's paid products. In other word, it's a sustainable distro that wouldn't disappear the other day in the morning. This ensures a peace of mind for the end users.

• From my experience in many instances, bug reports are being taken quickly and seriously. I can't say the same from my experience with Ubuntu and Fedora.

• OpenQA is another layer of testing, potentially makes the distro more stable, and harder to the breakage due to bad packages.

Now, what I don't like about it:

• Patterns. I don't like the fact that I have to block so many packages to prevent them from installing without my permission.

• Media codecs circumvent. Unlike Arch based distros where proprietary media codecs are provided in the official repo, PackMan is required. Some would say, there's Flatpak. But I would argue Flatpak doesn't support every use case. Even the file manager (Nautilus), which is the most basic use case, is still far from being Flatpaked, making it impossible to have any useful thumbnail for most of my media files. IMO, even though I know full well regarding the reason, but by relying on a 3rd-party repo on such a basic task is undeniably adding security risk/attack surface on the system.

Disclaimer: I'm not the review author.