ReactPress breaks website

I deactivated all plugins and still encountered the problem. However, I am now (partly) understanding what’s happening. The error occurs in the WordPress code responsible for loading the page template (template-loader.php).

$template = apply_filters( 'template_include', $template );
	if ( $template ) {
		include $template;

For some reason, with ReactPress activated, the code uses a relative path to try to load the template. So instead of $template having a value of ‘/home/tepbpumy/public_html/prints_wp/wp-content/themes/artday/template-home.php’, it will have a value of ‘template-home.php’. Of course, the file does not exist in the same location as template-loader.php, and hence page loading fails.

I managed to make a dirty fix as follows, but would appreciate any feedback if this detail rings a bell to something in the plugin code that might be causing this.

$template = apply_filters( 'template_include', $template );
	// FIX START
	$prefix = '/home/tepbpumy/public_html/prints_wp/wp-content/themes/artday/';
	if (strpos($template,'reactpress') == false) {
        $template = $prefix.$template;
    }
	// FIX END
	if ( $template ) {
		include $template;