I accidently created a situation where I lost "access" to save files and seemingly had to replay five hours due to that accident.

By good fortune I got to found files again which were hidden by presumably something related to the respec issue.

So in case you start missing save files, please check your save games folder if they are really gone.

Since I have seen several reports which similar content already I liked to share this experience as a warning with you.

A long and detailed bug report I have already submitted, so I expect it to be fixed soonish. Probably almost no one will ever encounter this bug since it is a result of game breaking decisions without actual intent to break them. Just a bad ID register of the SaveLoad module.