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AUR is a user repo, which means that If you install any aur package, you're trusting the user who is maintaining this package.
But if you install aur enough, you may install packages and libraries in your system that may break stuff.
AUR is not containerized, which means that these packages shares libs and files with your system. If a package installs a lib unsupported by official repo, it will certainly break your system.
I like aur, but I always try to install the least amount of packages from this source as possible.
Thank you for your input and insight.
Knowing that it is not containerized does help me understand the risks.