Hello Rose
Thank you. It is not urgent, since that site is not an important one at this time.
I have just sent a message to the Epic News Elements authors, as well, asking them to also alter their variable naming convention to avoid conflicts in future.
It is worth noting for your developers, that WordPress provides best practices in order to avoid “Naming Collisions”:-
https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/best-practices/
Robert