I think I discovered the culprit. What fixed this problem for me was disabling an addon I recently installed called Playback Resumer.
GitHub - bossanova808/script.service.playbackresumer: Kodi utility to periodically save restore prints - in case of crashes. (Development repo from May 2019)
Kodi utility to periodically save restore prints - in case of crashes. (Development repo from May 2019) - bossanova808/script.service.playbackresumer
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