Interesting. Just my two (Euro) cents, could that be related to the
Nvidia drivers being loaded early in the boot process, and being in the
initramfs ?

Imho, the only things that should reside in the initramfs are the tools
needed for the kernel to get access to the root filesystem, period. No
need for fancy graphics before that, and I'm sure even people encrypting
their root fs could be happy with an "ugly" password prompt. I mean,
fancy graphics are nice, but that's worth nothing if the system is
unbootable, and playing with the early boot process shouldn't be done
lightly.

I too had problems with my system being unbootable after upgrade
(related to the Nvidia driver too), and among other things I removed
everything that was setting the FRAMEBUFFER initramfs option, because
that's what brings the Nvidia driver in the initramfs. I wasn't sure
that solved my problem though, but now that I read that removing the
splash option from the kernel command line solves a similar problem, I'm
thinking about it again...

On my laptop, two files were setting the FRAMEBUFFER option : /etc
/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash that was created upon installing the MATE
desktop environment, and a configuration hook script that was installed
by the crypsetup-initramfs package. I removed the first file and purged
the crypsetup-initramfs package, and got no more Nvidia GPU driver in
the initramfs !

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  [nvidia] Automatic login fails and then all subsequent logins fail.
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