I figured out part of it. The index page only calls the hero widgets if the home page is showing the latest blog posts. If you’ve configured a static home page, with your latest posts under a different page name, the hero widgets never get called.
I tried editing the index.php from this:
<?php if ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) : ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'global-templates/hero' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
to this
<?php if ( is_front_page() ) : ?>
<?php get_template_part( 'global-templates/hero' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
but that still doesn’t call the widgets on the configured front page. I’ve been digging through the code and don’t see anywhere in any of the other template pages that would need to be changed.
