I recently learned that Manjaro has a track record of disappointing behavior (source).
Most importantly what bothered me out of the whole list, was letting their SSL certificate expire (5 times!).
So, as of this weekend, and as part of my regular OS reset, I moved to EndeavourOS.
So far the experience has been great, and I looking forward to using it. Let's see if this moves me closer to installing vanilla Arch.