Game Resets Your Preferred Characters If Using Hoxton

I recently started a second save file (see here for reasons why) and have once again run into an issue that I thought was save file corruption, but one that has persisted since the Hoxton Breakout at least one year ago.After making a new save file and completing the Safe house tutorial, I decided to choose Hoxton as my preferred character. I already have the achievement for beating Hoxton Breakout and was apart of the Steam Community, so the game allowed me to do so. It also allowed me to use the Nova Shank as a melee weapon, just as it should for any normal player.I proceeded to do several heists in stealth to level up and then exit the game. Today, I started up the game only to find that Dallas was now my preferred character, Hoxton was still a selectable character for me to play, but the Nova Shank was now locked off saying that I needed to be in the Steam Community in order to use it.Now I have voluntarily left and stopped following the Steam Community on more than one occasion over my heisting career and I can recall explicitly that unfollowing the community hub removes your ability to play as Hoxton, John Wick, and Bonnie as well as the various community member weapons/attachments given to you. It seems that the game is momentarily forgetting that I'm part of the Steam Community group or it doesn't fully load the fact that I am, causing Hoxton to reset becuase the game thinks I'm not apart of the community only to just as quickly confirm that I am, but still leave the Nova Shank weapon locked off saying I'm not apart of it.All of my access to every other 'community exclusive', such as other attachments, melee weapons, and the ability to host games for Hoxton Breakout are still in tact. Every time I wish to use Hoxton as a playable character, it's only a matter of time before exiting and launching the game again clears the entire preferred character list if even one of those slots has Hoxton.The Nova Shank weapon can become locked off to you, thinking you're not a part of the Steam Community, regardless of the fact that you're using Hoxton as one of your preferred character choices. To that extent, I don't think I've ever seen Hoxton used in a public or private lobby, due to the fact that your preferred characters can reset at random and this issue has been going on AT LEAST since Hoxton Breakout. I can specifically remember filing at least one or two bug reports in the past on this very issue and it STILL hasn't been fixed.Please fix this issue once and for all so we can all be able to play as Hoxton once again. It's quite a shame that the community did quite an effort for Pete Gold to even grace the game with the sound of his voice and British quips only to have his character somewhat 'fade into the ether' every time we exit and relaunch the game for no reason.EDIT: Here is a post I made last November, saying this issue was still around, though a quick search in the Bug Reports forum shows this issue has be reported numerous times as far back as November 2014 if not earlier. My previous Bug Report actually got a response from OVERKILL_Joakim back then and as of today, the issue was never followed up on and still remains. To add more info, I am currently using no mods at all though I do have the -skip_intro flag in my additional launcher commands in Steam. I am also presently playing on the Skill Tree beta with this fresh file but the issue has pesisted long before that was a thing, as far back as Hoxton Breakout release.