Oh, well, um, I guess never mind, just making a fool of myself. When I saw the YouTube video showing different behavior in the demo I thought something was up. It was posted in 2016 so I'm guessing something changed in the updates over the years that impacted that. Now I know, so all good, sorry about that. That moment when you spend all day fixing other peoples problems and it ends up leaving your brain drained for your own, lol. Eyes are probably crossing a bit after all the digging I've done picking out mods lately, plus a dash of sleep deprivation. Thanks for your time!
As a bonus, during this it seems I managed to accidentally fix what was causing that FlowGraph log flood, at least I haven't been able to replicate the problem since, fingers crossed. Now maybe the real madness can begin