Community lots are completely empty

Hello. I wanted to address an issue in my game where townies and staff stop spawning on community lots (bots lots that are made by EA and made by me). I am using mods and CC, so I did some research on what could be causing this. I was also having an issue where any time I would load a household that I've already played before, the time reset, they had no jobs, relationships, skills, etc. I found that TURBODRIVER's Simulation Unclogger mod was incompatible with MCCC's feature where you could slow down or speed up the time, so I deleted that mod, started a new save, repaired the game, and cleared the cache, and everything was working completely fine. I took my sims to a restaurant and everything worked normal. Then I took them back home and was experiencing lots of lag due to playing for a long time, so I exited the game and reopened it. The next sim day, I took my sims to the town pool and it was happening again--no townies. I then took them to a different restaurant and again--no townies, no staff. After that, I took them to a different restaurant made by EA and the same thing happened. I tried it with multiple different community lots, some made by me, some made by EA and it was happening at every lot I traveled to. I decided to try and take my sims home and then travel to the restaurant a second time. There were a few townies there, but no staff. I even tried doing it after taking my mods folder out and it was still happening. This is not happening in any of my other saves, but with this particular save, I believe it started after the February 12 update.

I have tried everything possible to fix this, but nothing seemed to work. If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it. I am playing on a 13-inch Macbook Pro MacOS Big Sur Version 11.7.10 and my mods folder size is around 80 GB. Thanks!