I want to thank
@EVAN KALOUDIS at
@ZEUS for personally responding to my customer support.
The wallet won't connect to peers even after leaving it open overnight with a new block sync running for ten hours.
From what I can tell in the logs the wallet is at the current block height, I can ping the peers but the rpc errors show no peers connected, and the channel state stays offline with no peers. The onchain balance shows zero and a rescan didn't work because no neutrino pairs connected.
I guess this gives me the chance to learn how to recover on chain funds in another instance or with Sparrow. I didn't have a big balance in lightning but I will try and see if I can recover.
Remember to always backup your funds friends.