@cchobbyfun
Well, Arduino IDE 2.0 is much nicer to use with very little learning curve!
ESP 2.0.11 board defs are most likely mandatory but older ones may still work.
I would update all libraries and, then, I would copy the contents of the Lib directly to your libraries and overwrite all, as 'replace'. In that order.
["I typically download the zip from Git Hub and launch from the extracted files. Is that good enough? If I have that local file structure do I need any of the libraries installed? "] should be OK.