In #3345 the default styles are added in even when you have external xml styles. If you have styled any of those default items (Title, Heading1, Heading2, etc.) in your external xml styles they are overwritten by the default style.
A (truncated) version of the the generated xml is below, with the default 'Title' style at the top overwritting the custom 'Title' style at the bottom.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<w:styles xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main" xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:r="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships" xmlns:w14="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2010/wordml" xmlns:w15="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml" xmlns:w16="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml" xmlns:w16cex="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2018/wordml/cex" xmlns:w16cid="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2016/wordml/cid" xmlns:w16du="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2023/wordml/word16du" xmlns:w16sdtdh="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2020/wordml/sdtdatahash" xmlns:w16sdtfl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2024/wordml/sdtformatlock" xmlns:w16se="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2015/wordml/symex" mc:Ignorable="w14 w15 w16se w16cid w16 w16cex w16sdtdh w16sdtfl w16du">
<w:docDefaults>
<w:rPrDefault />
<w:pPrDefault />
</w:docDefaults>
<w:style w:type="paragraph" w:styleId="Title">
<w:name w:val="Title" />
<w:basedOn w:val="Normal" />
<w:next w:val="Normal" />
<w:qFormat />
<w:rPr>
<w:sz w:val="56" />
<w:szCs w:val="56" />
</w:rPr>
</w:style>
......
<w:docDefaults>
<w:rPrDefault>
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:asciiTheme="minorHAnsi" w:eastAsiaTheme="minorHAnsi" w:hAnsiTheme="minorHAnsi" w:cstheme="minorBidi" />
<w:sz w:val="24" />
<w:szCs w:val="24" />
<w:lang w:val="en-US" w:eastAsia="en-US" w:bidi="ar-SA" />
</w:rPr>
</w:rPrDefault>
<w:pPrDefault />
</w:docDefaults>
<w:style w:type="paragraph" w:styleId="Title">
<w:name w:val="Title" />
<w:basedOn w:val="Heading1" />
<w:next w:val="AuthorList" />
<w:link w:val="TitleChar" />
<w:qFormat />
<w:rsid w:val="000C6FA5" />
<w:rPr>
<w:sz w:val="32" />
</w:rPr>
</w:style>
<w:style w:type="character" w:customStyle="1" w:styleId="TitleChar">
<w:name w:val="Title Char" />
<w:basedOn w:val="DefaultParagraphFont" />
<w:link w:val="Title" />
<w:rsid w:val="00583311" />
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial" w:eastAsia="Times New Roman" w:hAnsi="Arial" w:cs="Arial" />
<w:b />
<w:bCs />
<w:color w:val="0021A5" />
<w:kern w:val="36" />
<w:sz w:val="32" />
<w:szCs w:val="27" />
<w:shd w:val="clear" w:color="auto" w:fill="FFFFFF" />
</w:rPr>
</w:style>
......
</w:styles>
In #3345 the default styles are added in even when you have external xml styles. If you have styled any of those default items (Title, Heading1, Heading2, etc.) in your external xml styles they are overwritten by the default style.
A (truncated) version of the the generated xml is below, with the default 'Title' style at the top overwritting the custom 'Title' style at the bottom.