Breaking news! John, I think you're definitely on to something with your idea of this being a race condition. When I just rebooted, the periodic disk check ran (at the splash screen, essentially), so I paid close attention, remembering the race condition hunch. I noted that there was no flicker before transitioning to the login screen, and low and behold: I was on VT7 after boot for the first time ever, to the best of my knowledge! Okay, I'll get back to trying to get some plymouth debugging and logs for you, but wanted to report this.
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