EbonJaeger The branding change affects Budgie and XFCE. It changes the default archive manager from File Roller to Engrampa. We decided to do this because since File Roller was recently ported to GTK4/libadwaita, drag-and-drop no longer works with it and GTK3 applications; the drag-and-drop API changed between GTK 3 and 4 and are not compatible.
Engrampa is ok, not a good-looking extract window at all when I've tried it elsewhere, but its reliable. Sorry file-roller became unusable but se la vie. Forward progress is all good. Thanks for the heads up.