If the required setting is set to false, you can save the post with an empty field value. If it is required, please check if you use a validation or a custom code that sets the require for the HTML field. https://docs.metabox.io/validation/
The issue was that I had exported the code and made a plugin WITHOUT the requirement, but left the one on in the Builder, so it was over-riding my code. You can close this one.