Ah, so it's the Steam version. In that case it's probably Steam's cloud save syncing restoring the file.
Try this: https://drive.proton.me/urls/BG73896C6W#ZH2BXLXRw7zd
I've just put together a quick patch which should re-check the H patch on load, so you shouldn't need to touch the save file if you replace 006.rpa in your install directory with the file above.