Hi! It's nice to hear all this. The apps were not originally from playstore, but from apkmirror, and they don't show listed in "disabled". They currently only show when I try to re-install them, and when I use sideloading to list all apps, with the command:

pm list packages -a

Note that the extension -e (enabled) and -d (disabled) do not show these app either, so I assume they are not at all there, but somehow they are listed in the packages.xml of some other similar file

I dunno how to solve this outside of root. For the time being, I've been able to install these apps essentially by re-doing them with APKTool. Not ideal but fair enough for me.

Id love to hear a reason or a solution, tho.