The box was there. Where the keyboard is supposed to be. But the keyboard was not there. I couldn’t get the box where they keyboard should be to go away with gesture controls, and I couldn’t get the keyboard to actually display. I restarted and it was still happening in every app (including Google’s apps). It persisted when I restarted in safe mode so I went in and force stopped the Gboard app and then cleared storage and cache. That did the trick and the fix persisted when I restarted into regular android again.