Thanks for the help. I've sent a support ticket request to Zooz asking if they recommend any of their dimmers for my application. Continually impressed with this community's responsiveness. Perhaps I'll be able to contribute if I ever get this situation resolved.
Mahalo to all
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Just received response from Zooz.
"Zooz switches and dimmers are rated to be used with 120V lighting directly - so they cannot be connected to any kind of low voltage transformer. Zooz switches are smart switches with additional electronics that can be easily damaged by unsupported loads like transformers.
It doesn't look like one of our switches will be a good fit here, unfortunately."
On the positive side I have confirmed with Aeotec that their nano can handle several of the fixtures on the same circuit with the caveat of testing fixture, lamp, and nano compatibility. I have confirmed that the Elko fixture transformer is dimmable. So now I just need to decide how many fixtures I can easily modify to 120V lamps and how many nanos I need. I intend to start with one each of the can light circuits and one of the cable lights as a test.
An addendum to my search for solutions is:
Since my house isn't wired conventionally I don't have switch legs everywhere needed. My intent is to use rgbgenie touch panel 3 zone dimmers (ZW-3001) where I can and supplement them with hand held remotes. Rgbgenie offers hand helds in Zigbee but not Z-wave. I have requested verification of this but am wondering if with use of Hubitat can a Zigbee device control a Z-wave device since both are reporting to the hub?
Did I hear moaning? You guys by being so responsive have spoiled me.
Maybe it's worth checking the Leviton products? They still describe their current DZ6HD-1BZ as a "universal" dimmer, though they don't explicitly mention MLV loads like they did for the old VRMX1. I don't know how good their tech support is at responding to queries. Some of the vendors do have "MLV" on the product description but I don't know if I trust that since I don't see it in the Leviton specs.
One reason I think it might be worth checking is that some of their products do seem to be electrically "tougher" than the competition - for example their Z-wave wall switches can handle a full 15A or inductive load, which Zooz etc can't (of course you also pay for this in cost, and lack of some other features like multi-tap scene control, which is a bit lame).
The other suggestion of just going back to a Lutron system might have some merit too!
