So my whole problem here, in the end was the Hubitat Driver for Zen31. its kind of a mess with it's child devices.
The parent device level, trumps the child device level....but you cant use "Set color and level" from RM on the parent device, only the child....butt then the child device doesnt support "Start Raising Level"... etc
The ported ST driver that @agnes.zooz linked in the thread below is SO much better! Something should be done between HE and ZooZ to get this functionality in the default HE Zooz driver.