If you haven't already stopped looking at Itchio and/or haven't already joined the discord for MLBS, I recommend joining the discord and dming me your (a) save file, I know what your bugs are and can fix them through the savefile for the most part, but it only works with a specific savefile (since your particular issue appears to be the one that would break save that isn't modified)
You can find save files in the game folder as of Version 0.1.1 and for the foreseeable future.
if You don't still have a save file, You can just make a new one and send that to me, or i can make a new one, and send that to you, would be about the same at that point.
Once We address the issues within your savefile, I can go over a few things to do to help keep you running along more smoothly, and go over some potential things that may be playing a part in breaking the game drastically on your side, as it stands, the issue you've got depicted, Only a very small number of users have had, Not everyone has it, and those that have it do not really seem, or at least, not at a glance, to have necessarily super similar conditions