[qudat]

I don’t bother with wrappers, why does it need to be easier than git clone + makepkg -i?

Then I just update when I need to update

[beej71]

The wrapper will give you a nice diff of what changed. You can do that by hand, too, though.

[Charon77]

Wrapper is really helpful for every time you do pacman update for official repo, you should recompile all of the AUR repo as well, otherwise you'll be in the land of 'partial upgrades'. Some packages don't complaint too much, while others do