I run an Altis Life Server, using the life_server mod.
Previously, upon a player disconnecting to the side-select screen. The players would terminate and remove from the server so when new players connected, they would return to their initial starting positions.

This no longer happens.

I have been advised to run a mod @fixdisconnect which also does not rectify the issue entirely. I don't know what got changed, but the respawn system is completely fucked now.
disableAI parameter is set so that AI don't take over player bodies (which is now being ignored).

This is a direct result of the 1.68 patch as the very server cycle before the update was not doing this.