Glad to hear the hole question is solved.
There’s no need for a jog in the stripe but I don’t often do colour work in the round so can’t off the top of my head remember the various options for eliminating or disguising it. I’m sure someone else will be able to point you in the right direction to resolve it though.
I can’t tell how far along you are, but if you haven’t reached it yet, or you do decide to frog and restart, you might want to consider that colourwork on the centre line which looks asymmetrical in the pattern photo. It’s the red bits just by the centre line, it looks like several appear on the left of the line but not on the right of the line. Depends what bothers you and what doesn’t, it would bother me and I’d want to ignore those few red bits from the chart and even out the pattern so that I only worked the colours when they are “full” on both sides. There’s also a small smudge of green in the band just above, looks like a jog there with the left of centre having a little more green than the right of centre.
I’ve seen a couple of really interesting videos from master knitters where they have almost completely recharted patterns to fix these sort of details (especially it seems from older patterns) to ensure a symmetrical finish.
Having said that, there are things I’d be happy with which would bother other people, it’s a personal choice over whether to give it energy or not.
Either way, it’s a fun knit with the Xmas motifs. Looking forward to seeing your progress.