Publish isn't reflecting publish.css

I’m at my wits end here; no matter what I’ve tried my publish.css files is being replaced by app.css when published.

Things I’ve tried:

  1. removed passwords from the site.

  2. verified the file is indeed a .css extension

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  3. publish.css is in the correct folder

    1. I’ve even tried putting publish.css in the .obsidian directory but of course that wouldn’t work because it wouldn’t be published.
  4. publish.css is being published through the interface when changes are detected

  5. Rebuild vault cache

  6. Dumped cache from the browser and tried multiple different browsers.

  7. Validated the file with CSS Validator

  8. Even removed everything from publish.css and made it a single entry for testing with the following:
    body {
    background-color: pink !important;
    }

    1. I even waited 30 mins after this change to see if it was cached on the server.
  9. Fully deleted the published site and republished.

frontmatter-style.css is working just fine within the app. No matter what I’ve done so far it seems that publish.css is completely ignored/overridden by app.css.

Any help would be greatly appreciated; I’m running out of hair to pull out!

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