I reverted to the original firmware using NodeMCUPyFlasher and it worked just fine.
Then just for shits 'n' giggles I decided to try out ESPHomeFlasher to upload my ESPHome binary and it worked!

I had originally uploaded with Tasmotizer and esptool.py to no avail. Tasmotizer has worked for me in ...

Hey, nice find. I hadn't thought to look for the original source.

The bin file i uploaded is a binary I compiled with ESPHome.
Will give your suggestion a try and see how it goes though

Come to think of it, i should try reverting to the firmware backup I made and see if that works now.

I compiled an ESPHome binary and uploaded to this device using esptool.py:
https://www.banggood.com/LILYGO-TTGO-T-Camera-ESP32-WROVER-with-PSRAM-Camera-Module-OV2640-Camera-0_96-Inch-OLED-p-1418433.html?rmmds=myorder&ID=566074&cur_warehouse=CN

The command I used was:

esptool.py -p /dev/cu.SLAB ...