@bvitnik You're right. I added a lot of details, but neglected to mention that I'm not booting from USB.
I'm really not convinced I've destroyed my system. I truly think that's an over-reaction. I think I ruined my initrd and initramfs files, yes. But that should be recoverable. I haven't done nearly as much as you think I have. The reason I haven't succeeded in that yet is because I'm not really convinced I've been doing it the right way.
Since my my disks run in RAID, my system has like 6 partitions.
md127p1
md127p2
md127p3
md127p4
md127p5
md127p6
From memory, p1 and p2 are very similar. However p1 doesn't include grub (/boot/efi/EFI). P4 is grub. P2 looks very similar to p1, but it includes grub. P3 is my VHDs. P5 is maybe swap, and I can't remember what the other one is.
My point is that I don't believe that I've mounted everything correctly through the shell in order to be able to successfully chroot into the device and be able to run the dracut commands successfully. When I run the dracut commands, I see failures for applications that I can see in the sbin folder.
So there is something that I'm missing in mounting these disks in the shell that is preventing me from solving this issue. This is why I'm here. I'm not here for lectures about the dangers of USB.
Alternatively, I could boot the install media and simply perform a metadata/pool restore from backup, but I just want someone to tell me that's an actual viable option.
I'm not going to simply re-install the OS. If I do, I'll clone it first, and then boot the clone and test a metadata restore. But that's a lot of work for it to fail.