That being the case, I decided to ditch this beta that was providing zero benefit and go with the new release version.
I‘d already put a lot of time into setting up VPN Fusion the way I like it, eg. One standard WiFi MAC and one „Private“ WiFi MAC so that one iPad appears as two different devices on the network - and I didn‘t want to lose that.
That‘s why I didn‘t do a factory reset. I just download and applied the new firmware.
Greatly relieved to report that all my VPN Fusion settings and tunnel assignments still work as expected.