I switched to Manjaro but it does use the AUR too. Only issues sometimes are git packages where Manjaro is lagging a bit of the dependencies. But I've learnt what to look out for. Basically everything works for me otherwise.

the recent conversation between Danny Knowles and Mark Goodwin (What Bitcoin Did podcast) brilliantly points out that the private manifestations of surveillance capitalism have roots in “public institutions” and academia, and are intimately intertwined, and much more opaque to the public