and the certs lapsed again after volunteers built tooling to Prevent That

but somebody never set up the cron job to run it

Don't forget their package manageer DDoSing the AUR multiple times

I liked Manjaro, they had a nice theme, it was in the direction of Arch, but still had some guardrails for the noobish.

Then my system kept breaking, then they screwed up their certs. If they want to fork it and go forward with a different focus/ideology, that's fine by me.