Hotel daemon not starting (macOS)

Using macOS 10.14.5 (18F132) (Mojave) and node @ 10.41.1 and latest hotel.

I found that hotel start reported it had started, but the daemon wasn't running (as confirmed by curl http://localhost:2000 - gives no connection).

I was able to work around by running launchctl start hotel and then the daemon starts up. I'm not sure why user-startup doesn't make it run, but figured it was worth filing an issue (even if closed) so that others can find the work around.