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While this isnt ‘resolved’ I found a workaround that served my purposes. It was a straightforward fix in some respects originally. Removing the beginning of line 19 did fix the title in my feed reader. For whatever reason, the RSS widget on my blog page wouldn’t take the new rules though. So I found the kb advanced rss widget and it read the title correctly.

So I’m not sure if there is an override built into the WP RSS Widget core or what.. regardless, thanks for the help.