PlatformIO serial monitor no error, no output

Hi all, just upgraded CLion and I can't get the Serial Monitor to work. I'm not seeing any error - it's just that all the serial print statements  that were working on previous version of CLion with old serial monitor plugin are now printing nothing. 

So I'm missing some new setting in the ini file or something?  

This is all I see in the terminal output.

Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin...
--- Terminal on COM9 | 9600 8-N-1
--- Available filters and text transformations: colorize, debug, default, direct, esp32_exception_decoder, hexlify, log2file, nocontrol, printable, send_on_enter, time
--- More details at https://bit.ly/pio-monitor-filters
--- Quit: Ctrl+C | Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H
E (12044) wifi:Set status to INIT

this is my platformio.ini

[env:lilygo-t7-s3]
platform = espressif32
board = lilygo-t7-s3
framework = arduino
upload_protocol = esptool
targets = upload
lib_deps =
    links2004/WebSockets@^2.4.1

thanks, Kevin.