After coming back to PA instead of using hotbuild2 I decided to just use the default shortcuts. Seems like they randomly break mid game. Reloading the UI does not always help. How can it be that the input is so broken for me?
You may want to try clearing out old mods: https://wiki.palobby.com/wiki/Obsolete_Planetary_Annihilation_Mod_Manager_PAMM