welp it took 2 months, but manjaro finally had the same problem as arch: I did an update and now everything's broken and I can barely use my system

Last time this happened in arch, I spent ages trying to fix it and succeeded, only for it to break again

so this time, I'm just going to wipe the distro and install sabayon because I'm sick of this OS already

like, I can't even use my touchpad anymore, the panel at the top of the screen isn't displaying window-manager info (which is essential), I couldn't connect to wifi networks until I rolled back the entire update

this is absurd and awful and terrible and I don't know how people can still defend this nonsense