That makes sense, dkms is something I've used sparingly in the past because I haven't developed the useful habit of multiple kernels with proprietary video drivers, mostly out of laziness and gaming in Windows. I do have a desktop w/ a 2070 Super in it running Manjaro and Nvidia drivers, but that's done via some other mechanism outside of dkms (I'm using a package named "linux510-nvidia 460.80-1"; and I believe I haven't updated the kernel's 5.X release on this box in quite a while - I recall Manjaro has a different kernel management interface than Arch, so I didn't keep up with it after going from v5.4 -> 5.10). Other than that, the only dkms module I have is wireguard in v5.4. Great suggestion though, dkms will be the avenue I go down if I need Nvidia working in multiple kernels (I'll most likely stay on 5.12.4 [or the latest, so long as it working]) or want to experiment again to further ease management or build up my understanding about kernels and Nvidia playing nice.