Ok, after digging around I fixed it! It turned out to be related to the Autoptimize plugin. A couple of settings I tweaked on it were:
JS, CSS & HTML Tab -> Exclude scripts from Autoptimize -> Added wp-includes/js/dist/
Extra Tab -> Unchecked ‘Remove Emojis’
Not sure if both or either one were the fix but that was it.
Thank you for the awesome plugin ??