Hey, thanks for the feedback. I haven't heard of those last two issues before, so I'll check that out and get back to you on that.
Regarding the UI option resetting back to default, one other way you can see if the selection "took" is the lower right corner of the companion select screen.
I will investigate if the selection really didn't take, or if the UI just shows the default connection first, no matter what.
At the moment I'm setting up an uncensored model for Patreon users to connect to, so that even more folks can get access- but I'll investigate whatever's going on here and add the fix to the next update.
Cheers!