Been noticing this happen periodically over the last week or so on PC, but the seasonal artifact keeps resetting itself back down to 0. Sometimes it's mid-activity or in a social zone right after I've re-applied some artifact mods (anti-barrier pulse rifle, overload autorifle etc), which is super annoying because bare-minimum I kind of need my initial mods to stay active to deal with champions.
Hope this gets looked into, let alone acknowledged soon.
Can you make sure the artifact is actually equipped in the slot rather than sitting in the artifact-slot submenu to the left of it?
If its in the submenu, hover over the artifact and use the equip button.