Sounds like you may be on the right track now, but just thought I would comment on your original proposal.
This is often asked, but
"Clean install" is a common "solution" in Windows folklore, but I've never needed it in Windows.
In the case of Unraid, if you boot in SAFE mode (which results in no plugins loaded) and also don't load any VMs or dockers, then that is effectively a "clean install" of whatever release you are running, because Unraid runs in RAM. It installs itself fresh from the archives on flash into RAM at each boot.
So, if you are keeping your data I don't see how "starting over" can have any effect that couldn't be more simply accomplished by removing addons.