I saw 
It is a shame that the fix isn’t going to be implemented into 4.25, since I rely on a few plugins that of course will take some time to be updated to 4.26, but it is certainly better than losing a months worth of progress (I went back through my backups to see if any of them worked and the latest working backup I could find was from a month back, which is a lot of work when you work on a project for 4+~ hours per day)
I’m just glad that I will eventually be able to get back to working on the game at some point. I have learnt a lesson at least; never, ever, ever update, especially if everything is working fine.