Edit: update, I was able to get it to work. I ONLY had to reinstall windows and start from a clean boot. After having issues with the mod manager from GitHub and Vortex, I went through a dozen or so steps to find out my windows had some corrupted data issues that I couldn't fix. So, after reaching out to Microsoft support for help with the data issue, we did everything possible to fix it and it never did. They told me the last option was a clean install of windows and start over. This fixed whatever issue I was having.
