Grasshopper Text Objects behavior different in R8

Hi all, Has the handling of text objects changed in Rhino 8? I have a few grasshopper scripts that extract the text from text objects in the Rhino Model and use this info as inputs into gh. They work great in Rhino 7:


but are not passing the text through in Rhino 8:

There is also text added that says “Referenced Text Entity” as opposed to just the text. This is happening in both Windows and Mac, so I assume it’s not a bug.
Is there a way to get back this functionality? Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks.