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They have had their fair share of (sometimes easily avoidable) fuck-ups.
Stuff like:
Especially the SSL cert hurts. They cannot auto-renew their websites SSL cert (and didn't seem to learn from their first mistake) and they want to maintain a linux distro?
The "internal struggle" was actually related to the rest and (hopefully) sorted out the other issues.
The tl;dr is that Manjaro was setup as a company with one owner who often didn't do what he was supposed to and no one else had access to do it. This caused issues like the SSL stuff but also other things. Obviously this made quite some volunteers leave over time, but as the distro itself is actually quite nice also a bunch didn't want to give up that easily. Those pretty much gave that one person the choice to transfer the distro to a new to-be-made non-profit (leaving only the commercial activities in the company) or they would leave (and likely fork it or something). He agreed and they're now in the legal process of setting up the non-profit, where important things will not be in the hands of a single person.
So all with all it was a bit messy, but it seems they got it sorted out now. That should also prevent issues like they've seen in the past. So with that I wouldn't recommend against the distro. I still have it on some secundairy systems, where my main one (I need to say this naturally) got switched during the drama to run Arch (btw).
You can read more here: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171
Sort of. He said he was open to the general idea but raised a bunch of provisions and then ghosted everybody. I don't think there's been any further communication for the last few months.
If you check the link I posted (which is the non-discussion thread that explained the situation) it has the updates. Most come from dennis1248. On Matrix he also confirmed those are the latest updates, altrough that was a while back already. I don't check that Matrix chat that often. So while the owner (Phil) hasn't replied publicly since, there are updates from the people who started the manifest about what's happening behind the scenes since.
Last update I know of was the one late June, mentioning nearly finishing all the legal paperwork for setting up the non-profit entity (where they updated us before to take longer than expected due to the complexity of writing legal stuff taking longer than expected).