I suspect they wouldn’t do it if they didn’t need to. It’s possible that part of the issue was making its way into the save file, thus loading would cause it to reappear. It could be that the is saved to the file was changed and attempting to load an old one would confuse/conflict with what the engine was expecting.
In the patch notes. It’s good to check for new ones occasionally and definitely if a non-hotfix patch is deplyed: