Cannot boot to desktop after (big) April update

Since Mesa 24 update some AMD GPUs were affected, in my case the system boots ok, but SDDM screen never shows, I only get a black screen with mouse pointer. Slowroll wasn’t affected because it was using Mesa 23, but in the recent big update Mesa 24 was included.

As a workaround there was this suggestion:

There haven’t been a permanent fix so far.

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