Arduino Network causing severe battery drain on WiFi connected devices.

No reason to get scared. At this level (without saving anything) if anything goes wrong, just unplug your router from power and replug it, it will boot in a state as it was before.

Not true with all routers. If I modify a setting, there is no need to save. Unless I am in safe mode, the change is immediate and permanent. Good thing I have a serial port to access the router to get the default config back.

Otherwise, it is no big thing as long as you can afford a new one.