I'm working on this. @billdenney here's the diff for this release: main...v2.2.1
It's passing devtools::check() locally, I'm running revdepcheck on it now and then plan to submit to CRAN. There are usually surprises in devtools::release() checks but I'll handle those as I go.
This way we don't have to rush the other stuff, though I plan to still keep up the momentum.