A follow-up, I actually was able to solve my own problem by installing Prelovac’s SEO Smart Links Business 1.8.8 (I had it installed on an older website) – hopefully you have access to that for your own plugin as it does custom post types and functions with Gutenberg.
Lisa,
Thank you so much for the quick response. Moments ago I learned what we had done to create the 404 and so we corrected the problem. It was neither a LiteSpeed or Simple 301 Redirects related issue.
The WordPress community is wonderful.