Typing suggestions in floating bar gone in iPadOS 17?

I'm sorry, but this is not answering my question, where I plainly state that the on-screen keyboard shows Predictive Text as expected.

Upon connecting an external keyboard (in my case the Magic Keyboard case with trackpad included), the floating bar doesn't show Predictive Text as it used to in iPadOS 16. Instead, a per-app-custom floating bar appear with two fixed buttons (language and dictation) and from zero to many buttons in the middle. No sign of the Predictive Text segmented control / button array.

I will and contact Support if this doesn't work.

Could you confirm that, on your iPad running iPadOS 17, with a physical keyboard connected, the predictive text is still there?

I am just trying to rule out if this is an "as intended" feature of iPadOS (such as the CAPS Lock triggering the last Cyrillic keyboard introduced in iPadOS 13 or so... I complained about it in the Feedback Assistant app, and they replied "It's by design").

Thank you

The iPad is up to date (17.0.2).

I am always unable to understand why no one in their replies here is willing to confirm whether this feature has been removed in iPadOS 17 or if they see it on their iPads (with external keyboard).

This is a forum... how can we help each other if one cannot understand whether their problem is a specific one or something by design (and thus not a problem)?

I can, and will, contact Support, but there they will also not tell me if this is a removed feature or not until I have spent hours restoring my device.