Restoring data via time machine vs copying

I’ve Success fully upgraded my mbp 13”, late 2016 to sequoia and got everything running smoothly.

So, naturally the next step is to recover my data (I did a clean wipe & install. Question is, should I do this via my time machine backup? I saw on the official site that this can cause some issues and at least requires reverting the root patches before going through the migration assistant process and then reinstalling those root patches.

Thing is though, I’ve got almost all my important files backed up on a separate drive where I could just copy them in from and I’m wondering whether this might just be the simpler method in this case? Or could files from a previous OS somehow cause issues if copied over by hand?

Author: @6rkShir