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In my experience the AUR is a dumpsterfire where half of the stuff doesn't work or breaks other things in your system. Definitely not a reason to switch to arch or manjaro for me.
AUR on Manjaro is a dumbsterfire, not on close to Arch based systems such as EndeavourOS. I had my fair share of problems with Manjaro regarding AUR (and reported those and one got fixed), after 1.5 years of usage. AUR and Manjaro are not compatible, because how the packages are handled in the official repository.
And on other distributions close to Arch, if you don't install every little thing without thinking or checking, then it will end up in a dumbsterfire. I'm at least very glad this system of AUR exists for when I need it. Especially it is much simpler and trustworthy for distribution of software than any custom installer.