I figured it out! and YES it was caused by a CWP update that added a session save path to the php.ini which my site didn't use and didn't have one defined. I checked other sites I host and found the same in their php.ini files.
Hey CWP when you do updates and change things to make them compliant with higher php versions a little popup or notification of what might get changed or simply keeping site's ini files the same unless admin changes them!
TY