BTW I do have a related issue. As I mentioned, I restored the project “disabled”. What I discovered was that in doing so the default provider was disabled (as expected), but that meant that none of the GW tags were actually visible in the project. This sort of relates to my question from yesterday about not seeing any GW tags in the project. In hindsight this also confused me.
I expected points not to be updating, but I didn’t expect points to be hidden. I only saw the points in the project after I enabled the OPC connector.