Zwave-JS Migration Wizard troubles

My experience
Finally decided to try the migration earlier this month.
Lots of warning and errors. My strategy was to take the plunged and manually fix the issues. Over a period of a few days, was able to get all devices online and renamed - updated automations and all was good for a few days.

Yesterday, noticed that almost all wired devices were marked as Dead. After many failed attempts to correct the situation, decided to roll back to Zwave(Deprecated)

Backstory: Migrated from Vera a few months back to Zooz stick on Pi4. Automations and devices have been stable for months.

I have ~30 zwave devices and most have been flawlessly operating for close to a decade.