Lightburn won't recognize my machine anymore

If you can, I would recommend a wired network connection to the machine, as MacOS includes a low-level serial driver that conflicts with the FTDI driver. I’m honestly amazed that it worked for you for over a year, unless you recently updated the OS.

If you still want to use USB, this should help sort out the driver conflict:

If you want to try networked, this will walk you through it: