@cestpasgrave feels like one shouldn’t need to redownload and reinstall a pretty big app just to regain access to something that’s still on one’s computer and that probably should have been loaded by default, but yes, I certainly could, you’re right.

Luckily a few folks clued me in that I can (I think) delete the newly created prefs folder and the little startup screen prompt button to reload the old prefs should re-appear! Going to try that