I also noticed this behavior in TWS lately, no idea what causes it.
As of today, I still see combos which show bid/ask prices that are tighter than the bid/ask calculated using each leg's bid/ask, so the combo mid seems to be still affected by the combo limit orders. I'm totally confused.
And during the past few weeks it happened to me several times that my order not only did not seem to alter combo bid/ask but also was shown in blue (Your order is being held and monitored) and not in green (Active on SMART). I had some doubts at that time that my order is really being taken into account. But then things got to normal after a few hours. Before that, I only noticed this behavior as I was playing with some OCA orders (they were shown in blue and their limit price did not alter combo's bid/ask even though they were clearly active => one of those OCA orders filled at some point while being shown in blue, but I had some doubts that it was a fill as good as it would have been if the order were shown in green - maybe I'm biased here). Then I stopped using OCA orders and reverted to regular ones. I added this in the hope that others can confirm whether it happened to them, too.