Sorry for the late response! So, it was in fact a bug in the Avada theme code. Because of this, they just manually fixed it for me and are including the fix in their next patch, so hopefully it won’t happen to users in the future.
Their Dev response:
We have customized template files in the theme and there was a bug where Post count was not adding topic count on top of reply count which is what I have changed for you.
Anyways, I have fixed the post count issue for you and it will also be fixed in the next version of Avada.
