There were lots of issues with Wayland becoming default and nvidia being nvidia during those times, in fact I’ll add nvidia updates to the things you should check the forums for before intalling. Now the main issues have been ironed out, but for example there was another issue recently which required uninstalling a package before updating

https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/