May I just take the mention of functionality as an excuse to draw residual attention to my side quest of this thread (it started this one though, and it’s the main quest here - clicking through is much appreciated!):
Still not sure whether it’s zsh or bash processing my command, because of the above output of echo $SHELL being /bin/bash
About reasons for Manjaro’s choice of zsh as default:
Is that a known fact e.g. from telemetry (which I’m not opposed to btw), or from posts you see arounf the forum, or…?