Contacted Weeblr and indeed this was due to a bug in Joomla causing issues in SH404SEF for components NOT using SH404SEF router. Comment from Weeblr:
"There was again an unforeseen change in J! 3.8 that broke this, coming from the introduction of the new router (even if not enabled, the internals have somewhat changed, although less than I thought)."
I received a DEV version that solved the problem, case can be closed, but obviouslu this is a warning to be careful when upgrading Joomla to 3.8 for now.