I just hit an same issue probably related:
The mod Maintenance Madness (0.9.15) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.
Error while running event MaintenanceMadness::on_configuration_changed
MaintenanceMadness/control.lua:659: attempt to index local 'MROdata' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
MaintenanceMadness/control.lua:659: in function 'updateEntityControlEntry'
MaintenanceMadness/control.lua:687: in function 'updateMaintanceControlSettings'
MaintenanceMadness/control.lua:1955: in function <MaintenanceMadness/control.lua:1933>
It happened in a existing directly after adding the mod BitersBegoneUpdated or when loading the save without any of the other mods from the save.
If needed I can provide the savegame. I was not able to reproduce it in a "clean" savegame