Mono audio not working anymore on iPhone

I use an iPhone SE (2nd Gen) and normally stream music and videos using mono audio since I use an MFI hearing aid device and stereo doesn’t normally work properly when you have one hearing aid. However upon installing the recent iOS 17 update, I take note that parts of songs and videos I watch/listen to (specifically on YouTube and other social media) are missing certain elements or just have missing audio entirely as if Mono audio was off. So I go to settings assuming iOS 17 probably just reset the setting but it was still on. For a while I just assumed this was a problem with only my hearing aid but after playing songs that utilize stereo out loud on the phone speakers, the problem carries with it not being in Mono.

This issue occurs for most apps with the exception of Spotify, which is actually one of the only apps that truly play in mono as Apple Music itself doesn’t even try to play mono.

I see this as just a simple bug that after 2 months I’m finally reporting here to the Apple Community with hope that someone sees this and helps me get the message to Apple so that a patch could be put out to fix this oddly specific minor glitch.