For years it was absolutely unnecessary to completely recreate those 2 folder. Copying over the top was quick and effective. Only recently did it become a larger problem. Sorry for taking up your time.
Oh I solved it! Deleted the atmosphere and bootloader folders from the SD card completely. Extracted atmosphere, hekate, fusee, latest sys-patches, bootlogos, hekate_ipl.ini, and emummc.txt all to the SD. I was able to boot hekate, then to...
I have space left on the SD, and it does boot to OFW, yes it's technically 'working'. Hekate Github says it supports 22.1.0, but they must have edited it, as that just came out. I redownloaded the package and tried inserting the hekate bin with...