For some reason it's still using old config (I think). When my server crashed it said "handle_ticking_entities" was false and I'm assuming that's from the old config file. Either way there's a typo in the new config where under the "handles" path "entities" is written as "entites". Not sure if that has anything to do with it.

Server log:

Config file:

I looked into this and apparently by setting "handle.entites" to false it now handles entities. The JSON also often for some odd reason does this where the format becomes questionable.

Fixed in 2.2.5