You may want to check the gaps again in 500 miles or so. Just remove the grease cap & pull the axle as you did. I use two feeler gauge blades, inserting thinnest blade (0,03 or 0,04mm) first between face of hub flange and back side of snap ring, then slid the thicker blade behind it. This works well for very tight gaps. With a factory 2,2mm snap ring, I'd be very surprised if you could not measure some gap, something around the FSM recommend of <0,20mm.
In most every rig I've serviced much over 100K miles, I've had to go up to a 2,4 or 2,6mm snap ring. Before I started using this tool/clamp set up I didn't find as many wide gaps after greasing axle bearing & bushing.
In this case I moved up to a 2,4mm snap ring, which yielded a 0,03mm gap.
Would you recommend potentially setting a higher preload on new bearings to account for the initial loss of preload once they settle? Or is this just something that needs to be adjusted over time as the bearings settle?