The fact they were willing to try it says all it needs to about them. They only stopped because of complaints.
Your argument is like saying Unity game engine is fine because they rolled back on the changes. Nope.
Tenacity is much more trustworthy for me.
Could you elaborate on the harder to use? It was a fork so should be pretty similar. They overhauled the build stuff to make it easier to build on multiple systems.
I just don’t see a good reason to use Manjaro and many reasons not to.