That's what I thought.
I used this to update, but it still updated some DKMS stuff, and I'm still having some issues. Are there additional packages to skip?
pacman -Syu --ignore nvidia-dkms,nvidia-utils,nvidia-settings,opencl-nvidia
This time I was smart enough to manually snapshot the working state before going into debugging, so I can revert back to working state and re-run the update differently.
I'm still curious as to why the Garuda UI isn't working.