If you place an Illustrator file from a CC library as Linked, you actually place a PDF representation of that file.
If you later embed that pdf object, you can get these problems, all the Illustrator editability is gone.
If you place the file as a Copy, you will place the editable Illustrator content.
You can also double click the item in the Library, copy the content and paste it into a new file.
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