I struggle, but eventually get past it. I have the luxury of having no deadlines with my software hobby 
After looking more closely at my code, I think it was my attempt at migration. When an end user is updating to a newer version of the node that includes more properties and settings, I think that node-red does not get actively involved. I was trying to ease the end user's pain and probably caused more trouble than help. I have silenced the migration code and pushed an update to github.
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