Huge drop of Average disk space used

How is your disk connected? Is it SMR?
It’s so slow (“context canceled” errors for every attempt), that even lazy wilewalker cannot finish its work.

Please try to disable lazy filewalker, it will turn on the normal (with a normal priority):

# run garbage collection and used-space calculation filewalkers
# as a separate subprocess with lower IO priority (default true)
pieces.enable-lazy-filewalker: false

save the config and restart the node. If you use docker, you may provide this flag after the image name: --pieces.enable-lazy-filewalker=false