Why I shouldn't use Discover on Arch (Plasma) ?

I installed CachyOS with Plasma DE and found it has no discover in it. When I searched on their sub lots of people say that one shouldn't use Discover with any Arch distro as it will break the system. Can anybody clarify why?

Also if I am not supposed to use Discover, can anybody suggest an actual GUI application store? Unlike Octopi (which I consider just as a TUI with check boxes and columns)

Edit: I only use Discover for find and install new apps.

For updating, I just use paru.

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Fyi theres a way to cross post, but im fuzzy on exactly how. Hopefully someone can chime in with details.
- I actually did crosspost but for some reason, its not showing a crossposts section under the post.
  
  That's why i mentioned it. There's been a couple federation synching issues recently, maybe the crosspost function is caught up in it?

This discussion has some answers.
https://discuss.kde.org/t/discover-could-not-find-or-read-package-endeavouros/4659
The parts that stand out to me are partial upgrades and hidden errors.
- But, it won't be a problem if I use Discover just for find and install new apps. right?
  
  If the install has errors, you won’t see them.
  Browsing is fine. Once you find something you like, it’s better to use pacman or yay and watch the output.
  
  No. Lookup partial upgrades. Just a bad idea.

I've never personally used a GUI package manager. I just install an aur helper like yay and use the terminal, using the Arch repo websites to help look for packages when I need to.
I'm not sure why it might be bad to use discover. It's in the extra repo, not even from the aur. I would say you should backup, timeshift, and try it. You can always do a reinstall if you break something.
I did find this article which is not too old. https://www.debugpoint.com/arch-linux-gui-package-managers/
Out of this above list, I would try Bauh.

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