Upgrade socket.io to newer release if possible

[godber]

We should consider upgrading socket.io to a newer version if possible, but this is a tricky one.

Socket.io is up to 4.7.2 at this point.

https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/releases/tag/4.7.2

This may be a tough thing to upgrade, but if we're experiencing Node 18 problems that relate to Socket.io ... we may be forced to upgrade to get a fix.

Previous issue:
#916

[godber]

We've actually considered eliminating the event/messaging based communications altogether and may go down that route too.