Well … that has nothing to do with its version being newer or older.
And as with any other scenario where gfx/boot didnt work you might use something like
I might even say that if one cares about such things … they should probably not use plymouth.
Again … my comments were to help you better understand what happened in accordance with the versioning. Because that seemed to be a source of confusion.
If you had simply not updated at the time you did … but ~24 hours later you would have never seen these different versions, or the blackscreen for that matter. Same goes for not having plymouth