I have been using linux for about 2 years now and I have enjoyed every second of it. What in your opinion is the best package manager the linux community has ever offered to us? dpkg, apt, yum, pacman, xbps, zypp, nix, guix, portage, 0install and other tons of them that are out there.
Pacman is great. It may not be the best package manager out there (I haven’t tried them all), but it’s simple, fast, and, most importantly, trivial to create packages for (which is the reason the AUR exists, and why it’s so good).
You should give xbps-src a try. Not exactly like AUR but definitely worth checking out imho.