current broken mods theory is spinningplumbob's enhanced plantsims which apparently updated the literal day i started having problems, i had pulled it out by itself and stopped getting LEs entirely let alone ones related to the OR herbalism crafting skill

and putting the updated version back in... everything's fine

i fucking hate this game god damn

alternatively i may have accidentally scrolled a very outdated version of dxvk in the prefix at some point in my life and that's just pulping stability