Chris 
how many things do you have installed from the AUR? i've always tried to keep the number low because it just seems like a good idea, but curious to see what others call sensible, or even decadent.
my count: 5
Fabian@reallychris On my system (#CachyOS) I have 11 things installed from the AUR. The most used is cryptomator (encrypted safe that can live in any cloud storage), davfs2 to mount a nextcloud, dutree, and then there's stuff related to the R programming language. I.e. two IDEs and some dependencies for R itself or for some of the R pckgs I use: positron, rstudio, gcc9, gfortran9, udunits and v8-r.