6.20 /7.00 Beta: budgeted start does not update

[Starlight_Corporation]

Hello all,

Since a few days, my budgeted start has been reset to minimum & nothing I tried changed this state. See this thread for attempts I did to fix it: [bug] budget game start progress totaly gone -> My userdata files are in this post: Starlight_Corporation X4 user data files (signed & unsigned)

Never used mods (I like to assist in the beta/venture testing)
Disabled steam cloud saves
Loaded in an advanced save -> nothing
Played the 'Accomplished Scientist' start (comes with HQ & Boso-Ta) -> nothing, still minimum (can't unlock HQ on budgeted start even after this)
Made sure the file (and folder) is not read only (and stays that way)
File & folder have been assigned 'trusted' status for windows & antivirus.
Launched the game in offline mode (also tried this with network shut down) & loading in an advanced game & 'Accomplished Scientist' start -> nothing

Hope someone has an idea what it could be. I enjoy using the budgeted gamestart to craft starts of my own, but kinda hard with the minimum budget.