OK I think I solved it. Not sure exactly how, but here are all the recent steps I made:
- removed the program with "dnf remove adskidentitymanager";
- this also removed LookdevX and adsklicensing;
- re-ran the main installer (this installed everything back);
- removed /home/toquita/.autodesk;
- removed /home/toquita/.cache/AdskIdentityManager;
- removed /home/toquita/.config/Autodesk;
Now I can start Maya after 5 mins of closing it, and the program starts right away, no login shenanigans.