Correct plugin usage?

[DavidReinberger]

I've added this plugin to our project, however it does not work as expected, the probable cause is that I'm using it wrong, my setup is currently as follows.

1. Using conventional commits
2. Merge a PR to master
3. Figure out NX_BASE for current environment (rc tag) - gets all projects, then uses git to find the "oldest" between the projects (eg if you have 3 projects, and 1 was updated 10 commits before the current its going to take that tag), why? To allow for skipping pipelines when more MR are merged, therefore HEAD~1 is not an acceptable strategy
4. Pull Latest changes from repository
5. Run npx nx affected --exclude="packages/**" --parallel=false -t version --releaseAs=prerelease --preid=rc --skipProjectChangelog=true
6. Run npx nx affected --exclude="apps/**" --parallel=false -t version
7. Create a commit, move tags to the new commit and push it to repository with the commits
8. Deploy to stage environment

The process for "non-rc" version is basically the same and runs manually from the same commit with these differences in 3. and 5. and skips 6.

1. NX_BASE process is almost the same, but is looking for "non-rc` tags
2. nx command runs without --releaseAs=prerelease --preid=rc --skipProjectChangelog=true flags.

My issue is that the changelog is not being generated properly (eg. there are no changes), my idea is to have all the changes from the rc versions to be included in the "non-prerelease/rc" version, currently is not (even when skipProjectChangelog is set to false).

Can anybody please help me or point me towards what am I doing wrong? Thanks.