I know you're probably trying to be helpful (and still might be helpful for others) but If it wasn't obvious from my original thread I've already read every single comment mentioning this device several times.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/reboot-loop-problem-at-startup-o...

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/9273

(neither of these describe the issue i was talking about fwiw)