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Although I have no idea what the core issue is (and probably, as stated by @undefinederror, this is just a symptom of a misconfiguration somewhere else, because the crontab area needing a theme makes little sense to me), I will add that in addition to the new record within the theme table, I also had to override the DI preferences for Magento\Theme\Model\...
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