That's the thing... sometimes it does, other times it doesn't.
It's just an odd problem. Sent another ticket to CDPR support, but now with clips. I have no idea how this works or if the devs ever see it, but I know that if I was the lead graphics artist/engineer I would be disappointed to see this glitch ruining all my work. As Vick put it, it's an amazing looking game when it works, the modded textures + great HDR and vast draw distances are crazy, all at a great IQ. Hope they can fix it someday