Yes, exactly the same behaviour with all S-W examples: black screen, text, and the MoltenVK moving sprite. The console looks exactly the same for, say holograms and particlefire:
[mvk-info] MoltenVK version 0.18.2. Vulkan version 1.0.51.
[mvk-info] GPU device Intel HD Graphics 5000 supports the following Metal Feature Sets:
OSX GPU Family 1 v2
OSX GPU Family 1 v1
[mvk-info] You require a license for the MoltenVK Vulkan Core feature set. Reverting to evaluation mode.
[mvk-info] Created 2 swapchain images with initial size (1024, 768).