For further reference, the following note/warning has been added to the jre 9.x.x aur package's installer script:
Note that in the event where the jre 9.x.x aur package is an
absolute requirement, removing the above symlink is sufficient to restore Sigil (and other programs)'s ability to run.
The Arch-supported OpenJDK 9 package does not install a Java NPAPI browser plugin. The extra package "icedtea-web" provides a Java browser plugin for OpenJDK (and doesn't appear to crash qt5 webkit programs).