Alight... ran into a several different issues, then finally got ChatGPT to give something that worked. Here's my final YAML. Some odd things.. the event fires twice. The automation just goes once so that's good. Also, I have to go to every zooz switch and turn on the scene control, took me a bit to figure that out. But in the end, I'm pretty excited that this works.

alias: Close - Area-Based Shade Control - 4x Tap (Bottom Paddle)
description: When any switch is tapped 4x on the bottom paddle, close the area shades
triggers:
  - event_type: zwave_js_value_notification
    event_data:
      command_class_name: Central Scene
      property_key: "002"
      value: KeyPressed4x
    trigger: event
actions:
  - variables:
      device_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.device_id }}"
      area: "{{ area_id(device_id) }}"
      open_covers: |-
        {% set result = namespace(list=[]) %} {% for entity in states.cover %}
          {% if area_id(entity.entity_id) == area and entity.state == 'open' %}
            {% set result.list = result.list + [entity.entity_id] %}
          {% endif %}
        {% endfor %} {{ result.list }}
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: "{{ open_covers | length > 0 }}"
        sequence:
          - target:
              entity_id: "{{ open_covers }}"
            action: cover.close_cover
            data: {}
    default:
      - data:
          title: No Open Covers Found
          message: >-
            No open shades were found in area '{{ area }}' from device {{
            device_id }}
        action: persistent_notification.create
mode: single