It's quite possible there's more than one bug here!
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
does not look like a 404 error from a mirror due to a misquoted URL, but once I sudo apt install apt-transport-https, I'll probably be seeing the bugs you mentioned.
It's quite possible there's more than one bug here!
E: The method driver /usr/lib/ apt/methods/ https could not be found.
does not look like a 404 error from a mirror due to a misquoted URL, but once I sudo apt install apt-transport- https, I'll probably be seeing the bugs you mentioned.
*sigh*