Thank you so much for this insight. This definitely sounds like it may be the issue. However, I experienced a compatibility issue with the most recent custodian update, which I posted about here. The MaxForceHandler is deprecated, but atomate continues to call on it, so I cannot get any atomate jobs to run using the May 12th version of custodian (unless there is an even more recent release that addresses this). Do you know anything about this or if further updates have been made on this regard?
I am on vacation and am unable to validate this it at the moment, but I will get back with you as soon as I am back mid-July! Again, thank you sincerely for your response.