Illustrator will not eyedropper color correctly unless in isolation mode

Recently, Illustrator shapes and outlined type have been behaving very strangely. I'll go to eyedropper a color, and it will change the preview squares in the lefthand menu, but it won't change the actual color of the object. When I go into isolation mode, the preview color changes back to what the color of the object actually is, and only then will I be able to eyedropper a color correctly. I've attached an image below of my workflow so you can see what exaclty is happening, because it's hard to describe.

It does this especially with most commonly with complex shapes, outlined type, or objects that I have used pathfinder / shape builder on. I thought for some reason the objects might be in a clipping mask, but I've checked and they are not. The only way I've found that solves this issue is if I made an object a compound path. For obvious reasons I don't always want to do this, so am looking for an alternative solution or fix. Anyone know how to solve this? I'm running the most up-to-date Illustrator 24.2.3.