Flags don't have effect / behave strangely

[Swader]

Modding Alice like so

                "nodes": [
                        {
                                "name": "alice",
                                "wsPort": 9944,
                                "port": 30444,
                                "flags": ["--unsafe-ws-external"]

or so

                "nodes": [
                        {
                                "name": "alice",
                                "wsPort": 9944,
                                "port": 30444,
                                "flags": ["--ws-external"]

Will not open up WS for connections from the outside.

Running the binary directly with kusama --dev --tmp --ws-external works fine and immediately connects, which indicates that the flag is not being added.

Additionally, adding mutliple flags to alice like ["--ws-external", "--rpc-cors all"] will make it completely un-connectable even locally:

2021-09-14 12:33:37          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:39          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:42          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:44          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:47          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:49          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:52          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:54          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:57          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:33:59          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:02          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:04          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:07          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:09          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:12          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:14          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:17          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:19          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:22          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:24          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:27          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:29          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:32          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:34          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:37          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed
2021-09-14 12:34:39          API-WS: disconnected from ws://127.0.0.1:9944: 1006:: connection failed