Confused by what could be impacting my system

That’s because the issue in the thread where you started posting did not affect your system at all. The issue discussed there, i.e., Information on Roon's March 6, 2024 Connectivity Incident (inability to connect to Roon services, Qobuz, Tidal, and KKBOX), affects outdated 3rd-party servers and very old Linux distributions. You are using ROCK, which is neither and is not affected by this.