Spirit gifts not replacing skills in Beast Natures Wrath fight, beast remains invulnerable under shield indefinitely

In the Spiritborn Mission, The Beast Natures Wrath, on Xbox series X, the final encounter with the beast is bugged in a way that causes the mission to be impossible to complete. The Beast goes under its invulnerable shield, and the spirit totems can be activated and waves upon waves upon waves of enemies are destroyed until the verbal cue from the spirit guide can be heard saying “the spirit is pleased” (or something like that), but the skills are never replaced by the spirit totems gifts, so the beasts’ shield can never be broken, causing endless loop. The way out is blocked so the only way to end the encounter is to fail it and allow your character to die. I started with the Eagle spirit totem and the Centipede totem on my 2 attempts. Both failed to replace the skills and allow the mission/fight to be completed or continue. I’m so mad, I have no desire to rerun the dungeon and try to start with the gorilla or jaguar totems instead. I’m assuming all are bugged, regardless of order activated. I attempted to respec skills in the middle of the fight to trick the game, but that did not work either. Hoping for resolution here.