Never mind, I’m stupid. I just read this: Asterisk won't restart?
…and learned that the service control tooling on linux isn’t supposed to manage asterisk or report its status correctly. I did the “asterisk -r” command and it is indeed running.
Connected to Asterisk 16.13.0 currently running on freepbx (pid = 2332)
freepbx*CLI>
What to do at this prompt, I have no idea. But there it is.