Great! And now I realized one great feature I missed: "-Sss" to be able to immediately see and visit upstream URLs of packages. It's so simple, but so handy when comparing different options.

Since the move to git, asp is deprecated. It downloads the latest version from svn (from before the migration), not from git (which now has the latest versions). A bug was open for a long time without any activity. I see it has been fixed in the meanwhile, but yeah, it does not give me confidence it will keep up with arch changes in the future. Pity, it was a nice project. Maybe some new developers could pick it up, who knows. (I would have helped, but my knowledge of rust is too limited for now).

No, I think you have to enable it by default. I moved back to yay some time ago, because paru development seemed stalled (e.g. paru -G not working anymore) but the news integration was one of its nice small features that I have not seen somewhere else.

You can also use informant, which will notify you of unread news when using pacman