I do not care about apportioning blame / scapegoating because it is not helpful to resolve issue
Not having control of a system is not exactly a compliment for user abilities
I checked cached packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
mkinitcpio-35.2-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
mkinitcpio-36-6-any.pkg.tar.zst
mkinitcpio-37-1-any.pkg.tar.zst (current version)
All 3 versions have the same hooks configuration using brackets
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)
I suggest you consider your previous advice to another user
I also suggest you read forum rules regarding Personal Topics and Ineffective Discussion