I think the syncing process is getting stuck. My DO vm seems to be doing work (90% cpu, constant network usage) but it has been in this syncing for almost 12 hr now. The picture is of the node-manager on nknx.org.
Every time the node is upgraded, it will do pruning again. The longer the time in between upgrades, the longer the pruning will take. So I guess your node is behaving properly. Please wait.
Thank you for reply. I can see now while it was syncing, the “most recent block” had been increasing. It did just take a really long time to sync.