After further investigation it turned out to be the problem on my side - the pesky nouveau driver came back, in black, had to re-grubby it.
I am leaving the thread in case someone had a similar issue.
The solution is to check your lsmod for proper modules:
lsmod | grep -E 'nvidia|nouveau'
and if there is nouveau you do:
grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args='rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1'
I am leaving the thread in case someone had a similar issue.
The solution is to check your lsmod for proper modules:
lsmod | grep -E 'nvidia|nouveau'
and if there is nouveau you do:
grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args='rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1'