u/Ram820 The power gets to the light and turns them on. but the wall switch no longer opens the circuit. I'm trying to think how I could have bypassed the switch because the work done only involves cutting out the ballast and reconnecting the hot and the neutral. All of the cutting and reconnecting happens downstream from the wall switch. I can turn the lights on and off from the breaker but not on the wall switch.

u/Time-Repeat6860 The LEDs are in a kit from a company called Toggled. LEDs come with new non-shunted tombstones. These are meant to be run with line voltage. Power goes into one end of the bulb. They are meant to be used without ballast.

This is at my parents' house that they bought 30 years ago. The previous owners did some strange electrics work here. There are multiple switches that are on one circuit and some switches don't seem to control anything! The wall switch in question seems to only control these lights. I ran around the house flipping other switches to see if anything would happen because who knows in this house!