I have the same problem....however, I tried activating and unclicking a combination of third party downloaded mods/fixes and I see that may be the culprit. Maybe the fix is something we can do on the user end?....I've never used the "merge database" function on the pre-game editor, after all...
Created people do not appear in game
in Pre-Game and In-Game Editor
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Did merging the database work?