Theme Update Doesn't Retain Previous Settings

I attempted to find my previous post with the same title but it doesn’t appear to be archived, so… here we go again.
I am using a child-theme of Newspaper
I do not have any alterations to the theme. I use the child theme merely as a good practices measure.
Newspaper theme is set to auto update.

Every time a new version updates the tag-div plugins uninstall and a majority of previous set settings in the theme panel revert to the defaults, such as logos, template thumbnail sizes, choice of headers, and more that I cannot remember but, I’ll make a list as I now have to once again go into the theme panel and change them.

Also I have to reactivate the theme with my purchase code every update as well.

I find this highly annoying, time-consuming and generally a pain in the ass.

Here is a printout of the WPeMatico status report of the current setup, including server information, plug-ins, etc…

### Begin Debug Info ###

— Server Environment

Hosting Provider: DBH: localhost, SRV: wildsage.us
WebServer Info: Apache
MySQL Version: 5.6.41
PHP Version: 7.4.29
Disk Total Space: 1.48 TB
Disk Free Space: 1.25 TB

— Required Apache Mods
Mod Rewrite: Enabled
Mod Mime: Enabled
Mod Deflate: Disabled

— PHP Environment

Post Max Size: 260M
Max Input Vars: 3000
PHP Time Limit: 300
PHP Memory Limit: 512 MB
Allow URL fopen: On
ini_set: On
Disabled Functions:
Display Errors: On (1)
error_reporting levels: E_ERROR, E_WARNING, E_PARSE, , E_CORE_ERROR, E_CORE_WARNING, E_COMPILE_ERROR, , E_USER_ERROR, E_USER_WARNING, , , E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR, , ,

— PHP Extensions

cURL (php.net/curl): 7.81.0
ZipArchive: Enabled
DOMDocument: Enabled
GD Library: Enabled
XML (php.net/xml): Enabled, and sane
PCRE (php.net/pcre): Enabled
Zlib (php.net/zlib): Enabled
php.net/mbstring: Enabled
iconv (php.net/iconv): Enabled
OpenSSL(php.net/openssl):Enabled
MCrypt (php.net/mcrypt): Disabled

— Session Configuration
Session: Enabled
Session Name: SSESS6f380fa6739ae0d497146b3199b96450
Cookie Path: /
Save Path: /var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php74
Use Cookies: On
Use Only Cookies: On

— WordPress Environment

— User Browser
Platform: Windows
Browser Name: Chrome
Browser Version: 101.0.4951.64
User Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Wi
n64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KH
TML, like Gecko) Chrome/101.0.49
51.64 Safari/537.36

Home URL: https://wildsage.us
Site URL: https://wildsage.us
Version: 5.9.3
Multisite: No
Admin Email: admin@webdoghosting.net
Current User Email: sage_rebel@wildsage.us

— WordPress Configuration
Language WPLANG: en_US
Language Setting: Default
Permalink Structure: /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Active Theme: WildSage 10.3.1651792370
Show On Front: page
Page On Front: Home (#80241)
Page For Posts: Unset
Remote Get: wp_remote_get() works
Remote Post: wp_remote_post() works
Table Prefix: Length: 3 Status: Acceptable
Memory Limit: 256 MB
WP Max Upload Size: 260 MB
Registered Post Stati: publish, future, draft, pending, private, trash, auto-draft, inherit, request-pending, request-confirmed, request-failed, request-completed, acf-disabled, spam, dp-rewrite-republish
FileSystem Method: direct
WP_DEBUG: Disabled
WP_DEBUG_LOG: Disabled
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: Enabled
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WP_CRON_LOCK_TIMEOUT: 60
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— Campaigns Infos

Total campaigns: 32

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Last Run: May 12, 2022 8:46 am
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— WPeMatico Configuration

Version: 2.6.15
mailmethod: mail
mailsndemail: noreply@wildsage.us
mailsndname: WPeMatico Log
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— WordPress Active Plugins (38)

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— WordPress Inactive Plugins

— WordPress Cron Schedules

Next due: Schedule: Hook
May 12, 2022 10:21 pm: WPeMatico: wpematico_cron
May 12, 2022 10:22 pm: Every 5 minutes: jetpack_sync_full_cron
May 12, 2022 10:25 pm: Every 5 minutes: jetpack_sync_cron
May 12, 2022 10:30 pm: Once Hourly: jetpack_clean_nonces
May 12, 2022 10:34 pm: Once Hourly: wp_privacy_delete_old_export_files
May 13, 2022 12:20 am: Twice Daily: puc_cron_check_updates-fifu-premium
May 13, 2022 5:32 am: Twice Daily: td_instagram_cron_job
May 13, 2022 6:25 am: Sitemap Interval: jp_sitemap_cron_hook
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May 13, 2022 6:30 am: Once Daily: jp_purge_transients_cron
May 13, 2022 6:34 am: Twice Daily: wp_update_plugins
May 13, 2022 6:34 am: Twice Daily: wp_update_themes
May 13, 2022 6:34 am: Twice Daily: wp_version_check
May 13, 2022 6:35 am: Twice Daily: get_transient_features
May 13, 2022 6:35 am: Twice Daily: jetpack_waf_rules_update_cron
May 13, 2022 6:35 am: Twice Daily: googlesitekit_cron_update_remote_features
May 13, 2022 6:37 am: Twice Daily: wp_https_detection
May 13, 2022 12:49 pm: Once Daily: wpo_minify_purge_old_cache
May 13, 2022 12:49 pm: Once Daily: wpo_smush_clear_backup_images
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May 13, 2022 6:34 pm: Once Daily: wp_scheduled_delete
May 13, 2022 6:34 pm: Once Daily: delete_expired_transients
May 13, 2022 6:35 pm: Once Daily: wpseo_permalink_structure_check
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May 18, 2022 6:49 pm: Once Weekly: updraft_backup_database
May 19, 2022 3:01 am: Once Weekly: health-check-scheduled-site-status-check
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### End Debug Info ###

We had exactly the same issue yesterday!