Hmm. Starting to wonder if I have some kind of hardware issue?! POP OS was running noticeably slow and often had no response, or lagging response to input... There were also strange display lags. Apps selected from the toolbar wouldn't load... etc. etc. The system was working so smoothly before on Manjaro? So maybe the Arch kernel is just better for my hardware? After another failed attempt with Endeavour OS...which would boot up and not detect 2 of 3 of my monitors... *eyeroll*...Why hop, just return to what worked.
So back to Manjaro. I don't understand WHY distros run so dramatically different on the same hardware. It is VERY discernible. Weird issues with nearly every distro I've tried over the past week. But Manjaro just works as expected. Everything detects. No phantom lags. I guess it is time to plant a flag in team M. If it breaks I'll just reinstall it. *grin*