Resolve various follow up issues

MERGE REQUEST

MR Guidelines

Overview

Example for Visual Changes

A collection of various followups from the past. Should only be merged after 1.5.1 is released.

Checklist

Review and complete the checklist to ensure that the MR is complete before assigned to an approver.

• All new methods or updated methods have clear docstrings
• Testing added or updated for new methods
• Any new packages are added to Makefile and .gitlab-ci.yml
• API documentation updated for API updates
• Module README.md updated for changes to workflow
• Issue added to Sia-UI repo for new supporting features
• Changelog File Created

Issues Closed

closes #4402 (closed) closes #4396 (closed) closes #4394 (closed)