[2021] PA station in use by another person bug

A curious bug started happening to me yesterday (on PC). I plonk my PA down in front of the station, go to repair it, and get a 'server not responding' error. This resolves after about 30(ish) seconds, but I'm then unable to repair or craft anything because the game tells me the station is in use by someone else. I can't recall it either, and have to fast travel away for the game to return the PA to my inventory. Logging out, as well as restarting the entire client, doesn't seem to help.

Has anyone else encountered this? I did a quick search for previous posts and there were a couple from a year that had different but sort of similar issues. I should note that before yesterday, everything was hunky dory.