I was getting extremely frustrated with the application flickering on Wayland, so I was blindly following any and all suggestions to switch back to X11. I saw the solution posted here: Is it possible to switch back to X11?
I have a HiDPI monitor, so that dropdown in the bottom left of the corner is tiny. I thought I didn’t have it. That’s why I went searching for alternative solutions. (also the Virtual Keyboard button is right there too, on the bottom left, which confused me).
In the post above, I did not see the fine print that this is only applicable for users that have autologin enabled.
Similar setting in the UI:
I reverted /etc/sddm.conf back to :
[Autologin]
Session=plasma