Unable to reconnect to Matter Leviton D215S switch after home mesh upgrade

I was able to get the Leviton D215S switch working again, I'm sharing what I did as it may be of help to someone else. First of all, I think I had several layers of problems:

  1. The new Orbi mesh comes with IPV6 off by default, Leviton's documentation requires this on and mode set to "Auto Config".
  2. Several people report connection problems with firmware 2.1.25, which is the stable version posted by the vendor. To get a more up-to-date version you need to join Leviton's "Matter Early Access Program" (join via their "My Leviton" app), and also reach out to their tech support to request a more recent firmware. I got v2.3.15. I also factory-reset the switch and reconnected to our home network, to make sure I had a clean connection.
  3. Some folks also report issues when using networks with 5 and 2.4GHz wifi service under the same SSID, which is the way our Orbi 770 mesh works. I'm not sure this is a relevant with Hubitat, since the box has a wired connection. Just in case, I enabled a 2.4GHz IoT wifi network option that Orbi provides and hooked up the switch there.

With these changes in place, Hubitat's matter pairing process was successful and quick.