I’ve installed Manjaro back in February and I’m also affected by the double quotes (which aren’t a bug! I get it and understand the bash implications 
) I’ve posted the important parts of my mkinitcpio.conf in the most recent Stable update announcement and it turns out, I’ve got a mix of brackets and double quotes.
I wouldn’t have said anything but @Aragorn said something about ‘ages ago ‘deprecated’ double quotes’ and ‘not merged’ .pacnew files which led me to believe something might be wrong with my system because my mkinitcpio.conf was using double quotes but has only been installed in February 2023.
I have to admit I had no idea about what ‘mkinitcpio’ is and does or what all these hooks are that everyone is talking about, but I’ve read up on it meanwhile. Turns out I haven’t ever seen the splash screen my system is configured to show based on the plymouth hook and the kernel parameters.
When I turn on my monitor and system it first shows some splash screen from the ASUS (monitor) and then goes black with a ‘no displayport signal’ error only to come back with the Gnome login screen after a couple of seconds. Given the answer from 45-Oz it seems I’m missing ‘amdgpu’ being listed in the MODULES array for my installed Radeon RX6600 (CPU has no internal graphics)?
I also checked and made sure I’m using a ‘systemd’-based init but all the hooks in my array seem to be the busybox ones. ‘kms’ is missing but I’m not sure if that is on purpose. I’ve also seen the recommendations for switching to systemd, sd-vconsole and the (not) bug reports on Github and Gitlab.
This leaves me with the question, do I have to do these changes now manually to my .conf file or should I wait for a .pacnew file in the future? Why doesn’t Manjaro configure the correct systemd hooks and also list the graphic drivers upon installation?