Rescan, not reindex.
Yes, sorry. My bad.
After reading the above info, it helped me understand how they all interact. Not positive of the exact order of things, but this time I made sure to run EPS without rescan first, then saw Bitcoin Core import the addresses, then ran EPS with rescan and balances populated in electrum.
Okay, I was just curious because you said that you configured EPS and you rescanned it many times. So this is what you did. You ran EPS without rescan, you imported your addresses on Bitcoin Core and then you rescanned.
I didn't use EPS to connect to my node and let Electrum choose another server. This helped balances populate.
Doesn't this ruin the entire purpose of EPS? To prevent connecting to other electrum servers? Since I setup EPS, I'm starting my electrum with:
electrum --oneserver --server localhost:50002:s