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I have 77 AUR packages installed as we speak. There are no issues with AUR and Manjaro's delayed packages. AUR are source packages. They will compile against whatever is installed.
Occasionally an installed AUR package breaks because I don't update them automatically and the system libs have moved too far away from the binary I compiled. I rebuild it and that's it.
Obviously, you shouldn't install anything from AUR that will take the system down with it. This is true for any Arch distro.
In theory an AUR package can require an Arch package version that's not in Manjaro yet. I've never had that happen in 4 years and dozens of AUR packages. If it ever did I'd either install an older version of the AUR package or get a flatpak version.
Don't remember what packages caused problems for me but I had to repair it via tty quite a time. Not updating AUR packages automatically is actually a nice workaround to prevent system breakage which I was also doing it, until it started to cause problems more often. Maybe they fixed it I don't know (though highly doubt it because of the way they do it), haven't used Manjaro for 4 years. Then I thought about that, why would I need to deal with these kind of things if I can use my system up-to-date with every part of it. No one uses Manjaro because it's stable, people use it because it was the only "Arch with GUI" they know at the time. Now we have a lot of these and some of them are better than Manjaro. But again, if you're happy with Manjaro there is no need to change. I was happy until I wasn't because of Manjaro's structural problems (like they nuked AUR once). It's not a bad thing to recommend a better option if you know one.
I've started using Manjaro 4 years ago so basically I picked up where you left.
The situation seems to have reversed, nowadays there are plenty of "arch installers" like you said but Manjaro is actually a "stable Arch" alternative... provided you actually want that and don't do anything to rock the boat. Using flatpak instead of AUR when possible can help further.
I guess the key point there, using Manjaro as Manjaro, not as Arch. It can be stable that way since they also have their own repos. And I agree that using flatpaks instead of AUR on Manjaro would be better. Though at this point, if I am to switch distros, I would go for Void I guess. It's actually nice to hear that Manjaro seems more stable now.