Critical Compatibility Issues: Woo-commerce & Paypal

I am experiencing several critical issues with the WoodMart theme on my WP Engine hosted site (twit2woo.com). Despite following standard setup procedures, the following areas are broken:
1. Product Archive & Single Product Widgets:
Sidebars and filters (Category, AJAX filters) are failing to render on the front end. In the WordPress Widget Editor (Gutenberg), I am seeing “This block has encountered an error.” My server logs show repeated PHP Warnings:
PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “query_vars” on null in …/woocommerce/includes/class-wc-query.php
This suggests a conflict between WoodMart’s AJAX/Query logic and the Gutenberg Block Widget system.
2. Checkout Page Failures:
The Checkout page is throwing a “This block has encountered an error” message. The browser console reveals several Uncaught ReferenceErrors related to “Pay Later” scripts, even though these features are disabled:
Uncaught ReferenceError: lodash is not defined (cart-paylater-block-inserter.js)
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘registerCheckoutFilters’) (paylater-block.js)
3. Performance & API Timeouts:
I am seeing frequent 504 Gateway Timeout errors in the console when the editor attempts to fetch data via the REST API:
GET https://*******.com 504 (Gateway Timeout)
GET https://*******.com 504 (Gateway Timeout)
4. Elementor Compatibility:
When attempting to edit the Checkout page with Elementor, I receive the error: “The content area was not found in your page. You must call ‘the_content’ function…”
Request:
Can you please confirm if these are known compatibility issues with the latest version of WoodMart and the WooCommerce Block system? Should I be forced to use the “Classic Widgets” and “Classic Checkout” shortcode to resolve these, or is there a fix to allow these modern Gutenberg features to work with your theme’s custom query logic?

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