Help! My Albums are disappearing!

I imported my iPhoto Library and the old Events were converted into Albums in Photos, and everything was fine. Turned on iCloud Photo Library on my Mac and all my devices and everything was working as intended.
However, I just loaded up Photos and noticed that about a third of my Albums were nowhere to be found! All of the photo files still exist, buried in countless subfolders in the Photos Library, but my carefully curated Albums have vanished. As I was frantically searching for a solution, I returned to Photos and noticed that even MORE Albums were suddenly gone. What the?!
Any idea what could be causing this? Could the iCloud Library trying to sync on multiple devices be causing the confusion?
I'd like to try to nuke everything and start from scratch and reimport my old iPhoto Library again, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that.
What should I do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

There are a few threads about this. It appears to be a problem with the latest update. Awful problem, no known fix at this time.
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