Thank you for looking into this.
Unfortunately, we are not in a position to update theme and core plugin due to the fact that we have tried doing so in the past and it did not resolve our issue and more importantly, it broke a lot of sections in the website.
We are close to launching so we are trying to resolve this and we will spend time after the launch to go through the process of updating the theme + core plugin.
One thing to note, this issue with homepage started happening out of nowhere. We have not made any changes recently that would cause this to occur. it was working fine in the past and just started not working in the last few weeks.
We would appreciate your help looking into this and helping us resolve the issue until we update the theme. Thank you