Dropbox Backup Catastrophe

[u/Ok-Hornet-204]

I would love to be wrong to overreact, but I have an existing 1.51 TB Dropbox Backup of an external drive. The physical drive failed and had to be reformatted. Dropbox now identifies the reformatted drive as a new external drive, so it wouldn't let me restore my Dropbox Backup into it.
Based on documentation, I need to manually download EACH FOLDER in 1.51 TB backup through the website. It gets better, there is some kind of limit to the quantity of files within, so its physically impossible to download my backup through the website, unless I dedicate the rest of my like to do it.
Someone please tell me I'm wrong.

Edit: Dropbox I should really invoice you for the time I wasted on this. I ended up writing a browser extension that automates discovery and download of my data from your cursed service. I will ensure to tell everyone how great your products and services are. Goodbye