Went back to the drawing board, after trying much of what the commenters suggested here. The simple and most obvious thing I overlooked doing was a PRAM reset. That fixed it for me! Thank goodness! Thought I would share.

I tried all of the suggestions above (least invasive to most invasive). I tried to remove the suggested plug-ins but there is nothing in the Plug-Ins subfolders (Components, MAS, VST) for me to remove. Anyone have any other ideas to get this bluetooth issue corrected? MBP 2020