I can't recall if the issue went away and came back, but I moved the cache files at $HOME/.cache/paru/clone/popular-packages/popular-packages to popular-packages.bak.
On comparing the DIFFs between the two directories, not a lot is different -- the version with the issue was 0.6.2 with the old code StatsURL="https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/pub-dist/Software/${Filename}/${StatsFile}.bz2"
The new package downloaded and installed correctly today, thank you.
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