After further testing, I found out that it isn't the save buttons. For some reason, whenever I leave my home lot to go Traveling, that's when the game refuses to save my progress and creates a "scratch" name for any saves I make after traveling or during an outing. I know that the Scratch file in the Sims 4 folder is for temporary saves. What I don't get is why the game is triggering scratch saves when I save after or during an outing like as if the game thinks that's the base game saves. Also my household is in Mt Komorebi. I'm mentioning that just in case this is a common bug that only happens with households in that world.