I'm running the latest Fabric and Bobby version on Minecraft 1.19. I can set my render distance in Bobby to an arbitrary number, and the false/cached chunks (ie distant chunks) work as expected. However, my actual render distance is crushed to 2 chunks and it won't change no matter what options I change. As you can see in the screenshot, distant chunks work just fine, but they only show up if I've visited them inside that tiny 2 chunk render distance.

What could be causing this? Is there any way to fix it?

Solved. I thought the view-distance-overwrite option in bobby.conf was a toggle, either on or off (1 or 0), but it's not. It's the actual numerical view distance. After setting it to 32, the draw distance was 32 as expected.