Thank you for looking into this. I can't stress enough I had started with Opensuse 20 years ago and used Grub. Then about 15 years ago switched from Grub to Refind for multiboot Linux/Mac and since always installed Opensuse/Tumbleweed with no boot manager and never had this problem. /boot always contained modules and not empty. Last full clean TW install was July 2022 and I did not have this problem.