The game will fail to launch when both optifine and Ae2 are installed when the forge version used is higher than 33.0.37

Describe the bug
The game fails to launch.

To Reproduce
Install the latest version of both Ae2 and Optifine for 1.16.2 and use any version of forge higher than 33.0.37

Expected behavior
The game does not crash and loads properly like in 33.0.37 and below.

Additional context
33.0.40+ "crashlog"(I cannot get a proper crashlog. The game fails to load before a log can be generated)
https://pastebin.com/hrns8Are

33.0.37 loads fine so no crashlog is necessary

Environment
There are really no relevant details ? Even with a fresh install and a default forge profile the combination of applied energistics+optifine+forge version above 33.0.37 always equals a crash at startup. A removal of any of these makes the game load properly.

Helpful notes?
This could possibly be a bug with optifine? Im not sure. Ive only had this issue with Ae2.
"ModLauncher" in forge updated from version 6 to version 7 in 33.0.40 (Ive only noticed this because Ive been messing with vivecraft) so its also possibly a forge bug?

We can't really help you with this since, sorry. Optifine is not supported

The issue you're having doesn't seem related to Optifine though, it's already failing to load mod resources.

We can't really help you with this since, sorry. Optifine is not supported

The issue you're having doesn't seem related to Optifine though, it's already failing to load mod resources.

I see. It must be a forge bug then. That sucks. Guess Ill just have to use 33.0.37 until someone figures out whats going on.