plymouth-quit-wait.service hanging up on boot

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This prevents some important services from starting. I couldnt see anything significant in journalctl because this is a proxy server and it was getting blasted with rejects as the squid server wasnt running yet. here is some basic system info

running intel graphics

on this motherboard:
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: Z97-AR

rxlx backups $ rpm -qa | grep mouth

plymouth-theme-spinner-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-theme-charge-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-scripts-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-plugin-two-step-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-system-theme-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-core-libs-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-plugin-label-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64
plymouth-graphics-libs-0.9.4-7.20200615git1e36e30.el8.x86_64

rxlx backups $ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa)

rxlx backups $ uname -r
4.18.0-240.22.1.el8_3.x86_64

only solution i could find was to kill it with 9

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