I had the same issue where my page blanked out due to a conflict. I have a heavy theme, e-commerce ish, and didn’t want to flip it. So I deleted this entire chunk
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That resolved the homepage conflict issue. Of course if you want to display on archives, you might have to leave that part.
Not sure if this is going to cause more problems, but going to test it now.
Another option if you don’t mind adding some links you can use this – Gallery, but not as convenient.