Manjaro ethos does not allow packages to be forced on users
Manjaro Terms of Use
we will ship any software we can as long as our users ask for it and our packers are willing to prepare it for them
The developer of pulseeffects dropped support for PulseAudio and changed to PipeWire in February 2021
PulseEffect 5 not pipewiresrc pulseaudio - Manjaro XFCE 20.1
Change of name to easyeffects was a few months after dependency changes
Stable Update announcement of 2022-07-12 has 3 comments that appear to be blaming PulseAudio for creating dependency problems.
But there were no PulseAudio packages included in the update, So any problem with dependencies must be from another package update and comments are scapegoating the wrong package (again)