After updating to gnome 49 and rebooting, gdm failed to start and I wasn’t even able to access a TTY. Essentially, GDM failed to start due to conflicting packages (gdm-prime-48 and gdm-49). I had to do a custom command boot (by appending systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the linux line in the grub boot menu), and from there was finally able to access a TTY. I then reinstalled gdm and gnome-shell, where I noticed the conflicting package prompt, I then noticed the conflicting packages and was able to reinstall gdm properly. Everything works fine now.
For those that haven’t updated to Gnome 49 yet: when you do upgrade from CLI, please don’t press enter whenever the script gives you a prompt to take the default y/n option. When it asks you about removing conflicting packages, you will have to manually select “y” from the [y/N] prompt to not run in the same issue as I did.