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Is scrubbing ineligible voters from the rolls worth the effort if it means mistakenly bumping legitimate voters as well?

The law says yes, as some mistakes are unavoidable. For instance, I have a friend who lived in Indiana, his name was as common as the name Jim Johnson. He was Jim E. Johnson and his upstairs neighbor in the same building was Jim A. Johnson. His upstairs neighbor Jim A. Johnson voted in the Democrat primary, and they crossed Jim E. Johnson off the list as having voted. Not only was he not able to vote, but he had a heck of a time explain to the local party why he voted in a Democrat election when he was applying for a low-level position.

These things are to some degree unavoidable. Preventing thousands of people voting at the wrong address or on behalf of dead people does far more to preserve the franchise for the body politic.

Even the partially implemented reforms in Wisconsin made a difference last election day. Despite the Dems tears, it was NOT about the 108 year old lady from Milwaukee who claimed she had no photo ID. It was about the phony same day registrants who used a Kohl's flyer addressed "RESIDENT" for same day registration. New Hampshire was lost by phony same day registrants.

‘Is scrubbing ineligible voters from the rolls worth the effort if it means mistakenly bumping legitimate voters as well? “

ABSOLUTELY. Living people have the opportunity to fix the error. Dead people on the rolls stay there forever.