Update: After trying to pay again for the lapsed relays. I found that two of them were one-time only payment so that's good. There are the three that would require additional payment and how it worked out:

filter.nostr.wine - this one seems most businesslike as they give a discount for longer term. Problem is there was no route for me from either Alby or Muun.

relay.orangepill.dev - The orangepill.dev site is great all around with helpful guides NIP-05 registration and they have two paid relays. This is the US-based one but it seems their payment gateway is down. Maybe that's BTCPayServer? Just a guess. In any case. 504 there so can't pay.

nostrich.land - This is giving me a cloudflare host not reachable error, so maybe this service is gone completely?