How crucial is the change to the new clean wallet? I'm on the 10th day of staking with 2.4.1.0 non-clean wallet?
Could I wait till after staking in 20+ days time, or should I do the change to the cleaner wallet now?
depends how worried you are about running a version with
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleedupgrading wont change your coinage, so i see no reason to not use the new version. It wont have to re-download the chain or anything.