I'm having a weird issue with decouplers. Connecting a winch to a connector in the VAB and then using a decoupler near it is causing an issue where the winch "breaks" in to two separate crafts with a rope length of 0. I've been able to reproduce the issue with a fresh craft successfully. KSP version 1.8.1 with KAS 1.6. I'll leave a link to the github where I created an issue. Steps to reproduce are in the github link. This is really hurting my progress on recreating the curiosity landing with kOS.
https://github.com/ihsoft/KAS/issues/297