Thralls have a new weapons bug in 2.3 it seems. Not doing combos unless they have a favorite weapon, or in the case of bearers, no combos at all. Mine don’t go bare knuckled like yours, but it won’t surprise me if they do at some point.
Ya, I’m not able to confirm or reproduce the “Bearers not doing anything” that you have reported. But I am seeing some issues I’m able to reliably reproduce. I’m working on a bug report about it right now.