Post template settings do not work after 9.7.3 update

I tried to change POST TEMPLATE, however it does not work.
Please check version 9.7.3 for me. Thank you!

OK, before I go to the trouble of setting up a child theme so I can make changes to functions.php, I want to be sure I understand:

If I set up a child theme, none of the cloud templates will work? Is that correct?

And if that’s the case, and child themes no longer make sense with Newspaper, how should we implement customizations? Make them in the main files, keep a list of the changes we’ve made, and then make them again whenever there is an update?

Thank you for the reply.

So, the second part of my question is correct, as well. We have to make changes to the theme itself, keep a record of them, and re-make them whenever the theme is updated.

I understand your team’s need to deal with Envato’s requirements, since that is your sales channel. But the loss of child themes is a major setback, in my opinion. I hope you find out a way to fix this in the future, either by reimplementing child themes or by adding some sort of functionality into the theme itself that allows customizations and then remembers them during theme updates.

Thanks!