Workspace orientation not reversing

[Gak-den]

Hi! As the title says, I can't get my workspaces to scroll horizontally, even without any other manually installed extensions. I am using Gnome 42.9 which has orientation being vertical by default--an odd thing happened where I could only temporarily switch the orientation after enabling the option and redisabling it, but the changes reverted back as soon as I logged off. I've tried logging off after simply enabling the option, and it still doesn't work. The same thing happened with the Pop-up appearing in the bottom right of my screen.

There's also something else... Enabling the workspace-switcher-manager causes some text to go black in the top panel, more precisely the indicator for the "current workspace", which is related to another extension called SPACE BAR.

Thank you for your time and effort!