I also expected a fix from the developer, but taking into account that the version was released in early December and then there were several releases for different categories of patrons, and during all this time there were no fixes. Either the developer does not know about this problem, or is not going to solve it until the new release.
With this in mind, the fix is at least something that will help some go further. For example, everything worked for me and the game went as before in other events ...