How to bypass Infinite Loading Screen during the Ugly Baby quest after meeting the Nilfgaardians?

I shall be ever so grateful to anybody who could fix this.

I have The Witcher III: Wild Hunt GOTY edition on Steam, the mods I’ve ever installed are the ff:
-Multi Companion Mod, Yennefer Clothes Pack, HQ Yennefer Eyes, HD Reworked Project, and Debug Console Mod. I’ve only uninstalled MCM and HD Reworked project so only the rest remain installed.

Note: ALL mods were manually installed, no NMM or Vortex used.

The problem goes like this. I am stuck at the loading screen after meeting the Nilfgaardian battle mounts on the way to Kaer Morhen. I think it’s a mod problem since I had this same issue with the loading screen that comes after deciding to turn the botchling into a lubberkin before during Family Matters quest. I resolved it by uninstalling HD Reworked Project and Multi Companion Mod; which is done by entering "DisableCompanionSpawning(1)" in Velen, Toussaint, Kaer Morhen, Skellige and Vizima.
Note: I used console commands to reveal all signposts, I haven’t reached the part where KM, Vizima and Toussaint are freely accessible. I can fast travel to them but Geralt then is automatically overburdened while there (fast travelling back to Velen, Novigrad and Skellige resolves this)

I have attempted deleting the mods from the Mods folder, A reinstall (uninstalled via steam, reinstalled via steam), a clean reinstall (uninstalled via steam, deleted all remaining folders from my TW3 folder, gamesaves are intact, reinstall via steam, tried installing mod limit fix, tried putting the game on fullscreen, tried opening my save in the clean installed game with the mods, tried opening my save in the clean installed game without any mods installed, tried script merger (no conflicts), tried meditating unil 1pm before talking to the stable hand (which triggers the conversation that leads to the cutscene w the nilfgaardians, tried doing the byways murders quest before ugly baby, but not before ugly baby began so the quest was in my objectives, just not started, I’ve alsotried opening the save with MCM installed.

Any help is appreciated