Turns out the softbeep hack I was using to work around my PC speakers not beeping was screwing up Mutt. Solution: unset LD_PRELOAD in ~/.bash_login. Mutt loads up fine, and beeps still go through softbeep.
unset LD_PRELOAD
~/.bash_login
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I was in the right neck of the woods, but the wrong tree.
It’s not hotkey.ko going away that was screwing me. I still don’t know exactly what it was, but I’ve figured out a workaround.
Updated the static page.