This program is supposed to create a button that the user can press to activate a different sub. From my searches online, it seems that the sub below should activate when op
Similar to Nazim's event enable via code solution I found out the following fix:
closing all excel workbooks and VBA windows and reopening the one with Workbook_Open()
solved it.
(likely due to the event enabling similar to Nazim's solution linked above).
As I was debugging and aborted execution, I disabled the events in the running code before abort. I did not notice this circumstance at first and even after close/reopen of my workbook it did not work...
...The other open excel workbooks or some global instance somehow "remembered" that the events of the reopened workbook had been turned off.