I cannot format my text when I create it, but only afterwards when I go back into the card via āEā.
The formatting is greyed out when I create it. Can somebody help?

Have you tried starting Anki without add-ons? (hold Shift during startup)
My guess is that Frozen Fields is causing the issue (you should not be able to install it on Anki versions higher than 2.1.40). Anki 2.1.45+ has its own implementation of sticky fields, so the add-on has become redundant.
Yes that helped! Thanks a lot.