Unable to select traits in CAS

I obviously forgot to hit the Publish button a week ago... Since then, I found a work around, so I'm publishing it anyway in case others can find it useful. The problem described below happens only if I enter CAS to create a new household (the bottom-right icon). If I then save the household and move them into a lot, editing it will show traits as normal. So - it seems to be a glitch with new households only.

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I just created a new household, the traits were not showing so I did removed certain mods and added a few at a time with restarts, until I found which file must have been the problem. Then, the traits were back and I could complete my creation.

Now I started to create a 2nd household, and what worked with the previous project is no longer working... the 3 trait icons are blank again. So, the culprit mod might  not have been the problem afterall?

If anyone had something similar, pls share. I paced my game yesterday when installing Life & Death. Everything else seems to run fine. I don't understand why the feature works with one household but not the next.

It looks like this: