Applied 230MB+ of updates via command line. Kernel 5.4.12-1-MANJARO > 5.4.13-2-MANJARO. Everything surprisingly, apparently still works! Updates are where Manjaro has killed me in the past. I get the notification from Pamac on the taskbar, but update using pamac on the command line.
Not so fast
My optimism was a little premature. Yes Manjaro seemed OK…but it something happened that screwed up my Linux Mint signon screen. Some user entries that were on the Menu were gone and the wallpaper was different and I couldn’t sign on the valid user that was there! I restored a clonezilla Manjaro backup and Mint was OK.