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Removing the terminal customizations solved it. It was actually in zshenv, I forgot Catalina changed that by making zsh the default shell and zshenv is one of the start-up files.
 
The workflow was working fine with all these settings for quite a while, but whatever. I'm going to file this under "Be happy it's working and don't ask any questions." 

I paid for a Powerpack and signed up for this forum just to say thank you for releasing this. I'd be manually running the terminal command for months until recent releases couldn't even force Spotlight to index Google Drive.
 
This has drastically improved my day to day. I was spending so much time trying to reset search, find files I need to be effective at work, find files I need for personal reasons - it's baffling Google screwed this up when their old product worked, but whatever. Thank you, again for this.

I paid for a Powerpack and signed up for this forum just to say thank you for releasing this. I'd be manually running the terminal command for months until recent releases couldn't even force Spotlight to index Google Drive.
 
This has drastically improved my day to day. I was spending so much time trying to reset search, find files I need to be effective at work, find files I need for personal reasons - it's baffling Google screwed this up when their old product worked, but whatever. Thank you, again for this.

I paid for a Powerpack and signed up for this forum just to say thank you for releasing this. I'd be manually running the terminal command for months until recent releases couldn't even force Spotlight to index Google Drive.
 
This has drastically improved my day to day. I was spending so much time trying to reset search, find files I need to be effective at work, find files I need for personal reasons - it's baffling Google screwed this up when their old product worked, but whatever. Thank you, again for this.