WiFi adapters/drivers broken on Thinkpad T14 Gen3 after switch back to previous LTS kernel 5.15.106-1 with March 2023 firmware

I am happy to say I found a solution to this problem. I will share this here in case it could help anyone else. It turns out the latest March linux-firmware breaks the WiFi adapters for ThinkPad T14 Gen 3.
FYI A kernel update to 6.1-* fixes this but I have other painful problems there with black external monitors which is why I downgraded to 5.15.106 (the kernel I know and love from my home laptop Thinkpad x1 carbon)
[SOLUTION]
→ March 2023 Linux firmware breaks WiFi for ThinkPad T14 Gen3

List previously installed versions in local cache

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-firmware-* -1

Manually downgrade to previous january firmware

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-firmware-20230117.7e4f0ed-1-any.pkg.tar.zst

Reload driver

sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi && sudo modprobe iwlwifi

Tell pacman to ignore linux-firmware updates until this is sorted upstream

edit /etc/pacman.conf: ← use sudo for this

[options] <- section tag

IgnorePkg = linux-firmware
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