Strenght on gear not applying until you leave town and hit enemies

Level 67 Titan with Giant's Blood keystone allocated, as I logged on today it seems that strenght on gear no longer apply. It was working fine last night as I could use my two handed mace in one hand. It had strenght on it. Today logging in, it's still equipped but red as I do not meet the stat requirements. I equipped another 2 handed mace with +25 strenght on it (more than the +7 I was using) and strenght stayed the same on the character sheet. I equipped it in town (The Ziggurat Refuge).

Found workaround after testing:
I did some testing, and not until I go out of town and hit an enemy does the strenght on gear apply again. Returning to town after that keeps the strenght on gear. Of course, I had to use another weapon for that (maybe just hitting with any weapon or skill will work, in this instance I used the same weapon class, not sure if that's important or not, probably not).

Possible related allocated keystones: Titantic (Grants 5% increased strenght)

This resulted in quite the gear swapping to be able to use my weapon again as I was relying on the +7 which no longer applied upon a fresh login.

Additional testing:
Just logging out to the character screen doesn't reset it, presumable because the game is paused and place kept. Swapped characters out of town. Strenght kept.

Returned to town, swapped characters. Strenght kept.

Logged out of game (closed playstation app) completely. Strenght kept.

Closed app and put PS5 in rest mode. Strenght kept.

Closed app and turned off PS5. Strenght kept.

Cleared PS5 Cache. Strenght kept. I am unable to acertain as to why strenght from gear was not kept upon relog the next day. Possibly server-side related?

I died in the atlas after using a waystone before logging out yesterday, possibly related.