Surely this can be easily reproduced and tested by Larian. They have all the tools to get to Luculla with a press of a button. Just teleport to Luculla, save, get the Alfie quest, save again. Close the game, load both save files and see what happens. Much easier and faster than to have us play until we get there regularly.
And I don't want to come across as impatient but I find Larian's lack of communication on this board a bit ... irritating. I get that they are busy working on D:OS 2 and hopefully patches for EE but acknowledging bugs and reassuring people that they are working on fixing issues from time to time would be great. Unless I just didn't see them doing that.