yep, i did all of that. I like how everyone is assuming, after i supplied sbctl verify and sbctl list-bundles that i missed a step. if i had missed a step, i would have either noticed the error in the supplied info OR i would have got the uefi boot select screen, instead i got a bootloader\kernel panic. This means that i got to the point where the bootloader started AND TRIED to load the kernel but couldn’t, most likely coz it couldn’t mount the root filesystem.
Mod edit: removed off-topic rant.