Dear Elise,
I have continued testing. I have installed WordPress, Woodmark theme and WPBakery from scratch, without anything else. I have created a clean page and added a single “social bottons” element.
You can see in the images that although visually it is OK in the “visual editor” it still shows the Shortcodes and this is a problem because for Google it is plain text that it indexes. I can’t find a solution, can you help me?