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The Manjaro release style is holding back everything (yes, also critical security updates) for two weeks. How is that better than getting the updates?
I'm not a fan of getting updates every single day, sometimes breaking little things. I prefer less frequent homogeneous and tested releases.
But you're still getting updates every day, just two weeks later than Arch. The "testing" is just two other branches somewhat closer to the Arch package releases.
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Switching_Branches
Usually, the stable branch is updated every 2 weeks or so. Look at the past releases: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/stable-updates/12