OK, I officially don’t know any more than this. I’m out of ideas.
Best would be to wait for someone more knowledgeable than I to lend assistance.
In the meantime, since there’s no difference, you can revert to the newer driver:
First, uninstall the current driver:
mhwd --remove pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime
Followed by reinstalling the newer driver:
mhwd --auto pci nonfree 0300
I don’t know hows this escaped me, but do you use Wayland? Because
And I’ve seen multiple threads with issues on Wayland and Nvidia, so maybe it’s related? Perhaps this’ll help: