Citadel DLC: wards ambush glitch

I've been having problems with what I think is a glitch.

During the ambush, after falling through the fish tank, the 1st crewmate to contact me is my LI (Kaidan) as expected. I've been trying to get James as the 2nd crewmate to contact me, but so far, every time I start the DLC, no matter how many other missions I've done, it's always EDI.
The weird thing is that I've taken her to a total of 1 mission, while I've picked James for every single mission I could. He has by far the highest mission count.

At first I thought he's not on the comms because Wrex is dead, which means James comes to the rescue at the Skycar lot. But even so, the 2nd crewmate on the comms should either be the default (Liara) or in my case literally any other character.

Then I tried my hand at the Trilogy Save Editor, where I checked the mission counter, friendship counter and the Raw plot attention counter. The numbers were a bit weird - 0 friendship/attention with James - considering I've been nothing but friendly with him, made sure to talk to him every chance I get, both on the Normandy and the refugee dock. Even let him call me Loco, no matter how cringe-worthy it is. But the mission counter was correct.

I've tried changing the mission counter, then the friendship/attention counter, but nothing worked. It's always EDI. I'm at a loss.

In my 1500+ hours of gameplay, I've never had this problem before.