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Sounds like buggy code.
This is pure speculation, but it could be due to how the flash memory is written. Flash stores bits in page blocks. There is no way to partially write to flash memory. Even if a single variable needs to get stored in persistent memory, a whole page (like 4096 bits) must be retrieved, old values copied, new values added or changed, and the whole page gets written back into Flash. If something like power is lost while a page is getting written it is very possible for the last bits to get missed. If these bits are critical it can ruin the page and that can do stuff like mess up your settings. For a dev, there are ways around this in software by adding a redundant page in flash so that old, new, and changing are always on their own pages. If there is a problem the software knows to retrieve the redundant page. These are the types of features that do not make it into cheap project parts printers, and some expensive ones too.
That is way above my knowledge level, damn. Usually what i've found on google is that people have a different issue that causes this to happen like a different printer that uses another flavour of gcode that doesn't use the start gcode.
None of the things i've found so far has fixed my issue.
In the past i would do a fresh calibration of all the different settings and eventually the printer would start behaving again.
I'm going to have to do that either way as i have a new hot end coming in today for this printer.