Windows 11 file explorer hangs, open

I have encountered this problem on almost every upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11. I first encountered this on a VM I use as a test bed for investigating anomalous behaviors of Windows (of which I find many).. After much scouring of the web, the only workaround I've found is to disable the Windows Search service. The solution was to perform a clean install. This was acceptable on the VM.

But this is unacceptable if I want to keep my apps and data during an upgrade or depend on the service. because of the pending EOL of Win 10, I have now (reluctantly) performed on my main system. I was hoping at this late date, this would have been a permanent solution but that is, apparently is not the case.

Now I find this very recent post highlighting the issue. Other than submitting a comment to the "improvements" site, what can be done to beat up on the "powers that be" to get attention to this? How wide spread is it?