Yea it was (is) one of my theories, that it is triggered by a player logging in who happens to have a complex build. I’ve not been playing enough to do any more testing though.
And personally I’ve never lost anything to the bug, even thralls. I just wait it out and once the bug is passed everything is back to normal.Things (and players) pop back up. I’ve never pulled bracelet on it.
I suspect the people who lost things just didn’t wait it out and made things worse.