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Something is very wrong here, I've literally restored dozens of times with timeshift and never had it go wrong like this.
Restart the timeshift restore sequence checking very carefully the parameters (you dont have to complete, just go back into it). It should show you a list of what it wants to restore (on the second screen iirc) have a look at that for anything strange (like there not being any files listed to restore for example)
It seems I looked too coarsly. It showed all the files to restore. Then it show the same files...but to delete. So I ran it again but cancelled as soon as it began deleting. Now I have a system that boots at leasr into tty and can try to restore /home with duplicacy from there.
Still the question remains why everything was set to be deleted after restoring.