I have been renewing this fine since October 2020 with the same domains. The last renewal in 19 November 2023 was identical as well and we have not updated anything on our DNS servers since that date. We should be producing the same number of records. The output of the "host -t txt _acme-challenge.insect.com" command during the pause period gave back:
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