KDE 5 keeps getting uninstalled - not sure why

In two of my installs, I've had kde5 stop working after a reboot. This is the second time this happens, I absolutely cannot recall doing anything related to make this happen. I boot up my PC, log in, type "startx" and for some odd reason everything has disappeared and all I can see is a black wallpaper and the default breeze cursor. I can open the terminal from the keyboard shortcut and windows draw perfectly fine, including window decorations.

Both of these times I've managed to fix it by simply running "pkg install kde5", which suggests that some important packages were uninstalled? I don't know, I'm kind of lost. (PS: all customization is still very much intact after reinstalling kde5)

If anyone's got some ideas as to why this could be happening, I'd appreciate it.

[nvidia gtx 1660 super, 16GB ram]

[Issue SOLVED]
 
Did you do a pkg upgrade before the reboot? In my installation I spotted two apps, namely ghostwriter and nextcloudclient, which require the installation of kf6 and qt6 packages during an upgrade. These kf6 and qt6 packages conflict with the installed Plasma 5 packages, therefore the conflicting packages get removed during the upgrade. pkg upgrade shows the exact list of all packages to be removed.

Since I do not want to upgrade to Plasama 6 yet, I just locked the two conflicting packages using pkg lock <package>.
 
Did you do a pkg upgrade before the reboot? In my installation I spotted two apps, namely ghostwriter and nextcloudclient, which require the installation of kf6 and qt6 packages during an upgrade. These kf6 and qt6 packages conflict with the installed Plasma 5 packages, therefore the conflicting packages get removed during the upgrade. pkg upgrade shows the exact list of all packages to be removed.

Since I do not want to upgrade to Plasama 6 yet, I just locked the two conflicting packages using pkg lock <package>.
Thanks for your reply!
It seems like the conflicting package that caused Kde5 to uninstall was Mizuma.
 
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