@Ken - We acknowledge receipt of the email shared by you along with the file. We are investigating this issue at our end.

The instructions are extremely simple and located in my first post at the top of this thread. I'll just copy and paste and add the file as an attachment to the e-mail address you provided. As a reminder from one of my follow up posts, It doesn't matter whether I use "Save As…" or "Export As…", I get the same result. AI will generate an SVG containing the gradient, but any subsequent SVG creation, of the same file, using either saving options noted above, will generate a file with the gradient missing.

Gladly, but I’m missing the instructions here... I don’t see emails you send to the team. I know they had the intention to try to reproduce it, but haven’t had any news on this yet.

When I myself try it straightforwardly, with the settings I usually use (export as, no artboards, internal CC, decimal 5, no minify, but responsive), I get no problems — the background gets baked fine, and it gets displayed in various viewers as expected: Chromiums, Firefox, IE, Safari browsers, Inkscape, Ai itself, Affinity, viewers...
I’m missing the broken SVG and the settings :)

Pinged the team once more.

Hi Egor,
I missed your message regarding my sending you my AI file via e-mail. To speed things up, can someone just download the AI file I uploaded and follow my simple instructions on how to reproduce the SVG export issue?

Thanks for the reminder. Not that I know of... If the team got the email you send I asked about — could be. I asked them to check. Did you send anything? Did you use the same email you use here at UV?

Hi Egor. Any updates on this SVG exporting bug? It can be reproduced very easily. I'm hoping, by now, you've been able to reproduce it.

These forums are managed by the third-party company, and they provide their services not only to Adobe, but other companies as well. These don’t have replies, all comments are just go under another, no branching. But I read all of these anyway :)

Plus, occasionally, UserVoice deletes attachments (I have no idea on what basis!)

Please send this archive directly to the team, via sharewithai@adobe.com — this inbox is constantly monitored.
Also, please mention the link to this report for backtracking, http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51137227

Hi Egor,

This bug reporting system is very strange and one gets the impression Adobe hasn't put much time into it or you need to fire your service provider. I was looking for a reply button below your response, but couldn't find one. So, I'm hoping this reply makes it to you.

I used Export and Save As and got the same results. AI will create a perfect SVG the first attempt, but will remove the gradient upon the second and subsequent attempts. If I close the file and reopen it, AI will, again create a perfect SVG the first time only. I believe the issue relates to a Freeform (line-based) gradient. The reason I state this is because I have an AI file that I broke up into separate background and foreground files so I could make an object animate upwards between these 2 files as layers on a website I'm creating. The AI file and corresponding SVG within the attached ZIP archive is the foreground layer containing the Freeform gradient. The background file contains a radial gradient and AI can generate a correct SVG every time.

I've attached a ZIP archive containing a screenshot of my Export SVG settings. My Save As settings are the same.

Ken, not sure I can reproduce this, even with the file...
Please tell more about the settings you use when you produce an SVG: do you use Save As or Export As method, or perhaps Save for Screens? These all differ a bit. What options exactly do you set? When you say 'subsequent' — do you mean you keep working with the original file, or do you import a previously created SVG back and try to make changes? Kindly assist with the exact steps one can follow to catch the bug.