Ok, so I disabled all of my UI mods annnnd....... nothing, still not working. I had a few different INI changers all installed at once so I tried disabling them in case they were conflicting somehow, maybe overwriting each others changes even though they had the same settings, idk, and that also didn't work, I tried using the "reset to default" button in Bethini Pie but it doesn't seem that the game is even registering new INI settings, I have no idea how, I have like, 230 mods installed so digging through them to find the one that's causing it is gonna be a headache, especially because I'm mid play though and I'd really rather not have to restart.
I have also noticed that I can't get or set INI settings while in game using console commands, it says that it cannot find the setting I'm trying to get or set (turns out this only applies to settings in the pipboy or vats sections, at least those are the only two that don't work).
I also finally gave in and recreated the INIs from scratch, that also didn't fix it, so it must be a mod I have installed or a conflict between two mods that is causing it to fail.