Clones stop being companions after body swapping...

[I blame Earthshaker]

Can't say for sure if this is vanilla behavior since I run mods (although besides Clever girl, not sure what could have been the cause), but the game displayed some interesting behavior regarding allied companion clones after body swapping... the clones ceased to be companions to the new body!?!

I wanted to test body swapping some more, but happened to really like my mutation build; for this reason, I figured, why not save the build by just dropping a clone of me somewhere if I want to switch back? Well, it worked all right. Except that I guess clones are only considered companions of their cloned body, not the "brain" body part that switches into the new body (possibly the same issue with skills being linked to the body and not the brain part, unlike quests).

So now the clones are showing as allies of the new body (like having 300+ rep with a faction), but not as companions. I guess I could still beguile or proselytize the old clones to add them back as a companion (and I could still always swap into them), but it's still super odd that clones ceased to be companions after body swapping. Even weirder, some of the clones that are no companions also reverted back the location to where they originally budded, and every non-companion clone now just sits wherever they got left (although I guess this makes some sense, since maybe the clones just don't use the same action stack coding that involves idle behavior).

Anyhow, marginally long post, for those who TLDR, clones as automatic companions seems based on the clone's original body and not the "brain" body part that swaps into new bodies.

Edit: It appears this might be due to the Clever Girl mod based on a post in that mod's workshop, so I will need to test this phenomenon with the mod disabled to verify if mod-related. If mod-related, I will probably delete this post rather than leave it up.