"No Authors" bug - deleted all my animals

ahoy. recently installed the "no authors" mod because holy shit is having someone with a job set to a "4" start something and never finish it while messing with the job order itself annoying AF. upon doing this, i lost ALL my animals, farm and war, both vanilla AND added through the VE more animals and alpha animals mods. thankfully i was able to revert to a previous save that didnt have the mod to get them all back (after over an hour of IRL time spent). has anyone experienced this before or know how to fix it? i could understand losing some non-vanilla animals like my devilstrand sheep and behemoth, but cannot fathom how this mod could conflict with vanilla animals my goats and rhinos so severely.

15 year colony worth close to 1.5 mil so obviously had a lot of animals and have a lot of colonists being "trained" making corsets so id really like to find a fix to this. thank you.