As you can see everything is checked. I’m cognizant of the fact that there may be changes I need to make to fstab, but I’m a little lost as to what I should be changing.
On boot I need to authorize as a superuser to mount my drives every restart.
are these drives encrypted?
nope. they are not encrypted
Does kcmshell6 kcm_kded has “Device detection” present (solid-device-automounter).
Is it loaded ?
You should have kded6/kded installed also.
This seems like a Manjaro specific issues. Manjaro has hard a bunch of packaging mis-configuration.