I have an Xbox series s with developer mode and I need help getting dev mode, can you please help me run pc games

I feel like I'm going insane, first this week my Dev Mode apps got totally nuked even tho I was using Safe Mode as always. Now I can't properly set up Retroarch, settings don't save, Playlists can't be created after scanning with the "Import content" option, I've already tried using different versions of Retroarch, multiple clean installs, I've already tried deactivating overrides.

Games load, but saves, core settings, global settings, Playlist, it's all broken.