Gonna chime back in on a thing or two.
It's been difficult finding sufficient information here and there; to do everything alone.
Which includes compiling the kernel, which has been successful to compile a kernel alone, but it may seem that this is not the way to properly build TWRP for a device, so that had been halted.
Beyond that, it would seem futile of me to attempt compiling custom ROMs, bringing up security updates, or upstreaming a kernel.
So the motivation to develop for the device has dwindled, and now I just find a half-ass TWRP build is sufficient for me.
Which in my opinion with the latest Magisk update, that the installer still seeks the stock recovery image, that it may be worthwhile to patch the TWRP image.
The footnote to this is, that people have priorities. And that persistent failure without any conclusive idea on how to develop your environment just doesn't seem worthwhile.
For what it's worth, device tree for twrp is on TeamWins github, if anyone wants to perfect it.
I just don't find much viability in spending weeks back-to-back, research, trial and error, resulting in the same failure without sight of success.