Creative Cloud - Huge CPU Usage

Every time I need to reboot my '19 iMac (OS 12.6.4), it takes 15-20 minutes until the machine is usable again, which is an insane number. When I glance at Activity Monitor during the reboot debacle, Creative Cloud is taking 99.9% of the CPU, which is, again, a ridiculous statistic. 

I find myself repeatedly uninstalling the entire Creative Cloud ecosystem in order to prevent my Mac from being virtually hijacked by CC... but then having to reinstall occasionally because I actually really need Photoshop as a front end developer, on a fairly consistent basis.

Feels like this has been going on for years now, Adobe! What is wrong and how can it be fixed?