I did the upgrade on two servers. Both of them brought the pools online,
but one of them picked /dev/sdXX, the other picked by-id/wwn-*.

They are identical machines (DL380g9 both with 12x6tb SAS Drives), so
the discovered devices are effectively random. I assume /dev/disk/by-
id/scsi-3500* would also be in the pool of things it could have chosen.

However, once the devices are discovered 'missing' and zfs tries to find
them, they are then effectively stuck as that until the pool is exported
and re-imported.

As Doug mentioned, /dev/sdxx is strongly discouraged because of the
randomness of device discovery, and also significantly increases boot
delay if every disk needs to be probed. This can take many minutes on a
machine with a large number of spindles - I have a bulk storage server
with 169 disks (2 x 84 bay JBODs) that has taken 7 minutes to just load
its zpools during boot when an equivalent thing happened to it.

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