I had to put my fourth project since 4.21 on hold. All of them because of a bug that stops exposed variables to be set correctly. As far as I can tell it happens only within widgets.
I have been able to strip down my current project so it becomes clear:
As you can see, the text value is not transmitted to the Widget_Selection-widget that is created.
While I’m using 4.23 for my project, I opened it up in 4.24 and it happened as well. I attached the stripped-down project here: [ExposeOnSpawnProblem.zip][1]