Side mission characters disappearing

I’m running into multiple missions, on both xbox series s and ps5, where you’re supposed to talk to or find an npc. You can mark them on the map like normal, but when you get close they’re just not there. A few times I’ve been able to tp to town and back to get a character to appear like the old witch-y lady in scosglen but I hit road block on the oart where you wait for her tree familiar to do something…the tree just never comes back. I’ve tried turning off crossplay like others have suggested but nothing has worked.

This is pretty lame as I’ve finally just finished the original and season campaigns and was hoping to get all caught up on side missions for what bits of story they have before the dlc launches. I’m not optimistic this will be fixed before the dlc but I really hope it doesn’t persist into the new patch. Nothing kills my motivation to play the game like things that should and used to work suddenly not working