Are Distribution Packages recommended nowadays?

The "Distribution Packages" page starts with the following sentence:

The OS-specific packages (eg. RPMs on Linux) are generally a better bet
than the vanilla .tar.bz2 binary bundles, because they will check for
dependencies and allow the package to be uninstalled at a later date.

While they may lag behind the latest GHC release, we recommend using
them anyway for the above reasons, unless you have a particular need for
new features or bug fixes.

Nowadays we also have GHCup as an idiomatic way to install GHC.

Compare: https://www.haskell.org/get-started/#set-up-a-haskell-development-environment