I had similar revelations after switching from using a 1660 super with KDE Wayland to an AMD card.
It felt like a whole new system.
Anything with blur in Wayland with the nvidia card was glitchy. I had other issues with some transparency in apps that just went away. Random crashing of plasma shell at login is gone.
I just gave up on the shitty nvidia drivers being a crap shoot whether I'd be able to use my system or not.