For people following along at home: @ReillyBrogan has fixed this issue and cherry-picked the fixed vgrep package to the Stable repository.
Also don't install the whole system.utils component please. As a visual aid, the component contains ALL the following packages:
ack acpi acpid2 advancecomp aha alacritty alsa-tools amdgpu_top ansible antibody archivemount atool autofs autojump autokey-py3 autokey-py3-qt bandwhich bat bluez bolt borg bottom bridge-utils broot bsdiff btop btrbk btrfs-progs bumpversion bup burp byobu cabextract cdemu-client cdemu-daemon chmlib ckb clpeak compsize conky conky-manager convmv copyq corectrl cpu-x cpufrequtils czkawka d-spy dash dcfldd ddcutil ddrescue deja-dup devilspie2 dfc dmg2img dmidecode docker-machine doflicky dos2unix dosfstools dstat dtc duf duperemove duplicity dvtm efibootmgr encfs eopkg-deps eopkg4-bin etcher evtest exfatprogs eza f2fs-tools f3 fastfetch fd fish flashrom foremost fossil fsearch fuse fuse-overlayfs fuse-zip fuse2 fwupd fwupd-efi fzf g810-led gamescope gcab github-cli glab glances gnome-logs go-md2man goverlay gpart gperf gprename gpsbabel gptfdisk grub-customizer gsmartcontrol gtkhash gx52 haste-client hdparm heaptrack heimdall htop hub hyperfine i2c-tools i8kutils icdiff icmake icoutils iftop innoextract input-remapper intel-gpu-tools intel-undervolt inxi iotop isoimagewriter jpegoptim kbd keyutils kfind kitty ksystemlog layer-shell-qt lf libbsd libcryptui libdnet libevent libieee1284 libldm libosinfo libpcap liburing libva-utils light lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings lightdm-settings linux-tools-bpftool linux-tools-turbostat linux-tools-x86_energy_perf_policy lirc lm_sensors lrzip lsb-release lsd lshw lsof lsyncd lzlib lzop maim man-db man-pages mangohud mc mdadm minikube minizip-ng moreutils most mtools mugshot multibootusb multipath-tools navi ncdu neofetch netcat nmon nnn ntfs-3g nushell nvme-cli nvtop onefetch open-vm-tools openrazer-common openrgb ostree p7zip parted partitionmanager pastebinit pciutils picocom pigz piper plasma-disks plocate plzip polybar polychromatic powerlevel9k powerline powerstat powertop proc-maps progress psensor pueue pugixml pv qodem radeon-profile radeon-profile-daemon radeontop ranger razergenie rdfind reiserfsprogs restic ripgrep-all rmlint roccat-tools roccat-tools-arvo roccat-tools-isku roccat-tools-iskufx roccat-tools-kone roccat-tools-koneplus roccat-tools-konepure roccat-tools-konepuremilitary roccat-tools-konepureoptical roccat-tools-konextd roccat-tools-konextdoptical roccat-tools-kova2016 roccat-tools-kovaplus roccat-tools-lua roccat-tools-nyth roccat-tools-pyra roccat-tools-ryosmk roccat-tools-ryosmkfx roccat-tools-ryostkl roccat-tools-savu roccat-tools-skeltr roccat-tools-sova roccat-tools-suora roccat-tools-tyon rofi routino rpcbind rpi-imager rtkit rtmpdump s-tui scanmem scdoc schedtool screen screenfetch scrot sd sg3_utils sl smartmontools snapraid solaar squashfs-tools squashfuse starship stow stress-ng surfraw switcheroo-control syslinux sysprof sysstat tcsh tea tealdeer terminator terminology testdisk thefuck thermald thin-provisioning-tools thunderbolt-software-user-space tilda tilix tinyxml tinyxml2 tlp tmate tmux tmuxp tree ttyplot uclogic-tools udftools unclutter-xfixes unrar up upx usbmuxd v4l2loopback-common vdpauinfo vgrep vifm vkbasalt vnstat volume_key waybar wayland-utils whdd woeusb wofi wraith-master xboxdrv xcape xdelta3 xdo xdotool xerces-c xfconf xfsdump xfsprogs xmlto xone-common xsettingsd xtitle xwayland-run yad yadm yaml yodl zellij zpaq zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsync
