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Did the OTA update on both Gapps and non-Gapps phones as described above. Root was maintained by method described above (ie. the current Magisk recommended method). Updated Magisk app from v.30.6 to 30.7 during the process. All is well.

As predicted... OTA, root preserved, no need to do any dance with the Magisk app. Everything is as it used to be, simply taking the OTA and rebooting. Lineage-23.2-20260223-NIGHTLY-pro1x with February 1st security patch installed smoothly via OTA. MindTheGapps16, and root was maintained.  Changelog: https://download.lineageos.org/devices/pro1x/changes

If I remember correctly, the imei is part of the persist.img. So sharing would mean you used the same imei, and that is not advisable...

Might be a long shot, especially given how long it's been since you posted this, but do you have a copy of the perist.img you flashed? I could need one to flash on mine as well, even if it means loosing my IMEI ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

well, here's a new wrinkle.  I had been trying all week to install Magisk the way they say to in the official instructions here: https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html#patching-images  This was really just obsession, I don't have a huge need for root anymore.  But no matter what I did, root didn't take and every time I went back to the app it didn't indicate I had root.  I was honestly about to give up, but I hate to be defeated by computers. Lol. So I tried on last hail mary. I rebooted into recovery and without reinstalling anything else, I retried my old method of flashing Magisk changing the apk extension on the Magisk file to zip and using ADB sideload. I made 2 changes. One, I eliminated the "-d" option in the sideload command which had crept in because Lineage had used it. I don't even knnow what the option does, but I never used to do it. Second, I used the file for Madisk 30.6 when before I had been using some version of Magisk 29 (I'm sloppy about keeping up with the updates with my method).  I rebooted, opened the Magisk app, let it reinstall using their recommended automatic reinstall, not the find a file and patch it option and, boom, I'm rooted.  The fun will be that I will now be curious to see if, on Monday, I retain root again with OTA.   So what happened? Still  don't know. Maybe it was a simple as updaing Magisk. I don't know why that didn't occur to me before, but it had never created a problem in the past that I was slow to update. Right now I'm thinking that may be the most likely explanation. Whatever the explanation, I'm rooted again. 😄 I think I may be  back to me lovely, boring, repetitive posts every Monday. 😉