The bug appears to have been fixed in 5.5.8 or 5.5.9
There is only the 2016 ( stock theme ) and another plugin I built.
Tried disabling my plugin but it did not do the trick.
This was one of the first things I tried.
Switched back to 5.5.5 for the time being. Will update again to 5.5.7, debug and come back with an answer.
I thought it was a known issue.
However, thank you for replying.
Just reverted back to 5.5.5 and everything is working correctly.
Wanted to be sure that none of my changes were causing this.
It is definitely the upgrade.
Please let me know.