CAL "Basic Mode" consistently crashes

[MasterKogha]

As in title. Changing a CAL controller's mode from CAL to basic CircAss crashes the game. You can usually (but not always) reopen the world after the crash safely, but the CAL controller fails to open its GUI when r-clicked and cannot form.
Tested with just ZBGT + deps (using AE2UEL for the AE2 dep of ZBGT) and HEI.
crash log
latest.log

[MasterKogha]

worth noting i just checked, this issue was definitely caused by one of the changes made in 0.16.2, as downpatching to 0.16.1 fixed the issue (i suspect probably something to do with the addition of the imprint, which doesn't apply to non-CAL mode)