I started getting the base install on a separate SD card yesterday, and realised there's still loads of things I'd missed in my Ansible script, like reducing journal writes, etc.
So, I just put the old SD card back in and left it until I can look at it again
Small steps...
Yeah, my Pi Zeros are bettter on Trixie.
My proxmox was also an adhoc, lets-see-what-happens-if... build, but I think I'm going to drop proxmox for Incus as I can script that in Ansible too