Hey, nice to see some 5-year-old forum reactivations! Welcome back.
It's mostly a stacking order issue. You have a layer on top of your hover-sensitive elements, and the animated bounding box is interfering with the state. I'd suggest turning off pointer events on the layer. If you want to disable pointer events for an group recursively, use this approach:
Also, I noticed the setup of your file might lend itself to Hype Scene Magic (recently updated):