Menus navigation in AE 24 is broken, both for keyboard and mouse

There's a significant accessibility fault released with recent update to AE 24.0.3 on macOS Sonoma — navigation between app menus using keyboard is broken in AE: the focus is getting constantly reset to the beginning of the menu, and it's virtually impossible to reach to the needed menu item using LEFT and DOWN keyboard arrows.

To illustrate it I made a screen recording (see attached).

To explain what's recorded: I tried to reach to various menu items using only LEFT and DOWN arrows, and I couldn't as focus was constantly thrown back to the top. Notice how I tried to open Effects > Distort menu, and instead was thrown to the higher level Animation menu.

I couldn't reproduce issue in other macOS apps, and not in Adobe Photoshop, seems like it's specifically AE bug.

It significantly affects my productivity, as I used to navigate menus using keyboard.

Update:

As I just noticed, the problem is even more severe — it's not only about keyboard navigation, it also happens on mouse navigation: something is constantly overriding focus (attaching second video). I always have to hover twice over a menu item to get its submenu opened.

Details:

MacBook Pro 2019

macOS Sonoma 14.1.1

After Effects 24.0.3