That process is a PITA, I had to do that once or twice on FS22. Glad you got it working, it seems to still load mods even if they are not active as I get keybinds sometimes for mods that are not active on my save.
Now for testing I have two mods folders and rename them and add mods accordingly to the second one depending on what im testing. If you figure out which mod it was LMK.