Enough people use it that it would make sense to have it in the official packages. However, having to download and build at least one AUR package (yay itself) m

Enough people use it that it would make sense to have it in the official packages. However, having to download and build at least one AUR package (yay itself) manually is an important part of being familiar with the process so that you are more likely to take precautions with third party stuff you later install from the AUR. Installing an AUR package without a helper (which you have to do to install a helper in the first place) basically amounts to: git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si But then you would have to manually check for updates etc, so the helpers are pretty useful.