why are bools pins holding their up state?

i'm getting misleading results in a prefab using bools LEDs fed by logic gates.
normally i have 16x prefabs with (image>floattobool>boolsplitter)

this time, they are containerized in 4s.

i've had the odd bools thing stay in an old state before but it generally gets
resolved when i reload the prefab. or is it when i restart SE?... no: had to
disconnect the LED containers and redo all the cables, that cleared them.

where's that happening then? on the pins of the container? or the subcontainer?

would be useful to have a better idea of how processing differs with the different
subcontrols - also how this differs from DSP processing. curious after observing
how SE+prefabs behave when there are large amounts of subcontrols modules.
muting containers is no use with subcontrols (but helps when it's all DSP).