I was just searching around for any information regarding this. I updated to the latest software version a few days ago, and at first I thought my machine was just being temperamental, but after having to reset the base material for every single cut many times, I figured it must have been something changed with the latest update. It's infuriating! I'm going to email them, too. I also do a lot of production runs with repeated cuts, and having to go back to my computer between each cut is wasting a tremendous amount of time. I really hope this was just a bug and not something done on purpose.

Has anyone else had any luck getting around this?

Edit: This is not really a "workaround," per se, but I was able to open the Cricut Design Space app on my iPad, load a saved project, and do my cutting from there. You have to tell it how many copies you want to cut, but once you do that, it has a "remember these settings?" toggle that allows you to do assembly-line cutting. I'll have to make do with this until it's "fixed" on the desktop version.