The reason why our home almost exclusively got esphome nodes! The “just works 
” is something other commercial technologies still need to invent 
You cleaned the build files already which would have been my first take too 
Now, another try would be to change the framework version (maybe to latest) in your esp82xx yaml and try to compile it - just to see if it makes a difference.
In case that didn’t do the trick might be helpful to paste your full yaml in this thread 