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Not necessarily. You can have your documents on one subvolume and the root system on another. I version and snapshot my root disk and home disk separately.
True, if you set it up out of the box with CachyOS it rolls the entire disk back, but I forgot that option was a thing, my bad!
Don't take it the wrong way, but if you "forget" such a basic thinkg, are you really suited for creating and maintaining a whole distro? Maybe you need a few years more experience first?
No offense taken, but I didn't use btrfs snapshots in a minute and spent 200 hours in the last 18 days working on my distro with a little less than adequate sleep due to my ADHD keeping me awake, thinking about what to implement next. Please cut me some slack haha