I agree, it's much better in Ubuntu land where you simply won't have the software at all, will shrug your shoulders and go on with your life.

AUR helpers make reviewing changes to AUR packages a trivial matter that takes about 2 minutes of my life per month. In exchange I get easy access to software that isn't packaged for Ubuntu and probably never will be, because building debs and going through the process of upstreaming them is roughly comparable to getting a PhD (if anyone is even interested in your debs, which they probably won't be).