XD freezes after using for more than 10 minutes.

I'm on an M1 Mac OS version 11.6, XD version 45.0.62.

Features and workflow approaches aside, the performance of the app is atrocious.   Slow, sluggish, almost always a hiccup when performing any transform, movement- anything.   I cannot even work at a what I would consider a slow pace. 

Immediately after startup and opening a document with four artboards and zero rasters, zero prototype workflows, nothing extra- I'm using over 1GB of RAM.   Over 1GB of memory for just vectors and text on four artboards?  Unacceptable.  

I would be able to get some work done, albeit slowly, if the app did not freeze on any session exceeding 10 mintues.   It simply becomes unresponsive and has to be restarted. 

Auto saving is also not working.  I came back to work today to find last Friday's work completely lost- the app was frozen and restarting the app resulted in all of my work vanishing.  It's 2021- I haven't worried about losing work in almost a decade.   Huge step backwards.

It's clear something is wrong with the delivery and execution of the XD- is there a place where Adobe is transparent about the issues that XD is facing and what is being done to address them?