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I have absolutely zero experience on pacman, but I could argue the very same with dpkg/apt with the same arguments. The Debian kind, not the abomination Ubuntu ships with today.
It's similarily possible (dpkg --get-selections, some sed/cut/awk wizardry to cut unnecessary stuff from the output, xargs to apt install --reinstall on that and you should be good to go, maybe there's even a simpler way to achieve that) with Debian.
But that's just me. I've been with Debian for quite a while. Potato was released 2000, but I think I got my hands on it 2001/2002 and I've been a happy user since. And even if I've worked with pretty much any major distribution (RHEL, CentOS, SuSe, Ubuntu and even Slackware back in the day) around I still prefer Debian because that's what I know and learned over the years on how to fix things if something goes sideways.
I think the missing key there is the independent statically built binary for apt that does not depend on pretty much any part of the base system actually functioning. That's what I couldn't find, is there one and I just suck at Google?
I don't think there's one at least in official repositories. But if you're missing libc6 one might argue that your system is not in any functional state anyways.