Good news, v2.29.2.1-beta now available, and the delay is gone. (Or rather, back to the same delay experienced before, which is still more than Z* because it needs to load an external MCU that manages the radio over a slow serial port.)
Sorry for the regression there. (We left some debug prints enabled which delay the CPU due to a slow serial port on Snowbird. Not noticeable on Z* because the port is 16x faster there… 56kbaud vs 922kbaud…)
Once I got over Despair, Drudgery wasn’t so scary.
