I found this YouTube relating to PIO extremely helpful

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This opened up for me extremely helpful insight into the PIO platform and NightDriverStrip project.
For those attempting to get their feet wet in this, I hope it will be for you as well. This YT video shows how to manage library dependencies. For NightDriverStrip-main on Windows 10, the libdeps folder can be found here C:\Users(username)\NightDriverStrip-main.pio\libdeps

Using the PlatformIO Library Manager

I found several very informative YTs on this guys Channel. Now I understand what a great IDE PIO is and that it is NightDriver that is difficult to get a grasp for...but I'm making headway.