The update of rxvt-unicode to version 9.31 brought a bug that causes the prompt in new terminal instances to be placed in the middle of the window and not at the top.
Reported upstream: http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2023q1/002639.html Also reported at Arch with a patch to fix it: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77062