Determined why splash screen disappears on start

lua/plugins/surround.lua

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 return {
   'kylechui/nvim-surround',
   version = "*", -- Use for stability; omit to use `main` branch for the latest features
-  event = "VeryLazy",
+  event = "VeryLazy", -- FIXME: Causes splash screen to disappear on startup
   config = function()
     require("nvim-surround").setup({})
   end

lua/plugins/todo.lua

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 return {
-  'folke/todo-comments.nvim',
+  'folke/todo-comments.nvim', -- FIXME: Causes splash screen to disappear on startup
   dependencies = { 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim' },
   config = function()
     require('todo-comments').setup({