Yah, when they develop another "Chapter" and/or Update to introduce new features to the Base Game, the ZOS developers have an manifest tendency to break things that were working. Sometimes they also introduce errors when they change features that did not need to be changed. Fixing this error will probably not be among their highest priorities, so please don't hold your breath.This NPC doesn't talk anymore nor wants to open his mouth at all. He worked perfectly before Summerset update.
Whatever you did to the base game, you messed up some stuff that worked normally.