Aye, the problem with the kickstart script, is that it compiles the image from scratch (which works, but I would certainly prefer a package manager version for either 32bit or 64bit ARM).
I was hoping to have an apt repo of some sort to deal with things as it reduces the load (and gets package updates faster than rebuilding each time, especially on such a low powered device).
It also defaults the user directory to /opt/ instead of /etc/ as per normal, so the behaviour is definitely different between x86 and ARM versions (potentially related to kickstart.sh random install to either /etc/netdata or /opt/netdata/etc/netdata - #2 by Austin_Hemmelgarn).