Interesting fact! If you’ve had an arch machine for a while, it’s possible you didn’t know that parallel download support is available, because it’s a config option hidden in pacman conf.pacnew
(I know I didn’t realize it until months after, lol).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads
While I agree with the sentiment, the key bindings have been burned into my less squishy ROM at this point, and I’ve got all banks of squishy RAM available 😄