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always read the news before updates. There was one that said manual intervention was needed, and gave you the exact command you needed to run
I only read it when I get error like this to know what I shouldn't do. Is that acceptable? Always checking the news seems superfluous because most times it goes smoothly, and packman will fail and let you know if it can't do something.
You can just subscribe to the announcement mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/arch-announce.lists.archlinux.org/
This way you get notified immediately and there are also very few messages being sent on the list.