Drupal 7.97 won't cycle pages with content on front page

Doesn't matter which theme, if content (a page) is promoted to the front page, page cycling stops in any view using a cycling effect. I am using also Domain Access. I realize it is Drupal 7 but there are major modules that mainters refuse to port or have abandoned still needed. Two views blocks both with cycling pagers do work, but add content and they stop

Once was working until the upgrade to Drupal 7.97 and now if there is any content on any theme but the views slideshow pager - it will not cycle. ( I skipped from 7.94 to 7.97)

In views the preview cycles fine

Also possibly not views slideshow, but the content placed below the slideshow will invade the pager placing the pic off to the right

I applied the patch from https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow/issues/3309507 →

and patch 52 froom

https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow/issues/1510526 →

after which the content no longer invades the pager space, but still it stops if any content is promoted to the front page and the content can remain published but just not promoted to front page

and I applied the patch from https://www.drupal.org/project/views_slideshow/issues/3361138 🐛 Deprecated: Using ${var} in strings is deprecated, use {$var} instead Needs review

and on each patch flushed the cache

When no content is promoted, the pager controls create this huge space to the bottom of the theme

It is as though placing content hovers it over the pager pausing it

and . . . for some reason a "subscribe to RSS feeds" icon shows up with content added at the lower left corner of the content block