This started happening to my wife and me in 2 separate AMD computers about 3 months ago on Fedora 41,for no apparent reason.
I ended up switching to PopOS and my wife went back to Windows (she was dual booting).
We both came back to Fedora as soon as 42 was live, and have had no issues (yet).
We both use Fedora Workstation on Mutter, not i3, so could have been a different situation.
In my case, I tinker quite a bit when I’m bored, and immutable distros, as well as atomic distros, raise barriers that I’d rather not have to jump over to have my fill of tinkering.