The funny thing was that the only thing preventing it from working (even though it shouldn't) was a one or two line change in the internal code that loads paylo

The funny thing was that the only thing preventing it from working (even though it shouldn't) was a one or two line change in the internal code that loads payloads into models. I actually thought that it was a bug until I realized what was happening (though it was still difficult because one of the methods that was being used is/was monkey-patched on at runtime, and therefore don't exist on any of the classes in the code).