Maybe I spoke too soon, I did a zypper dup a few minutes later and now
I just get a black screen ; even redoing things w/ the .run also gives
me a black screen.

JFTR, I had to boot into nvidia-driver (as I need to use the external screen)
and ended up in a black screen as well (TW, 20211111 on ThinkPad X1 Extreme,
):

Will subscribe to
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192678
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192751

Cheers
Axel