Illustrator is crashing and freezing on mac & auto-recovery on Illustrator (29.7.1.)

So:

1. I'm forced to pay 86.55 € every month for Creative Cloud, up like 10 € from last year.

2. The app keeps crashing (on Nov 2024 24GB MacBook Pro). It didn't use to before.

3. The auto-recovery, which's been working fine for the last 10+ years is for some reason taken from us—it takes you to the last-saved version, any untitled files just vanish.

Really? Like wtf, why would you fumble the bag on this caliber? This is ridiculous. Do you recommend going back to earlier version? 

And for all the patronizer splainiacs out there seeing this as their opportunity to shine and write "don't rely on auto-recovery save your files" – pls save the rest of us, you're not special, literally everyone gets that. Without you saying. Like literally just don't write it.