Lightroom Import Freezes Hangs Is Nearly Worthless

Out of nowhere, trying to Import in Lightroom has become impossible. I click and have to wait minutes. It hangs. It freezes. If I click too many times, it crashes. What used to only take a minute or so is now taking nearly a half hour or more. It's taking forever to move between menus. Takes forever to load folders of pictures. Takes forever to do anything.

When I started, I created a catalog on a SSD external drive (I've done this many times before to the same drive without issue). To see if it was an external drive issue, I switched to a different catalog on an internal SSD and attempted to import. The same issue occured. So I don't believe it's an external/internal drive issue.

I'm running the latest Windows 10 update. I'm running the latest Lightroom Classic version. I think Windows may have updated a few nights ago (?) I also updated all my Adobe programs night before last as well. So maybe a compatibility issue?

I have an MSI Tomahawk motherboard, Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, 128GB RAM, GeoForce RTX 3060 with 12GB of RAM. I don't think it's a memory issue.

I recall having this problem a while back but can't remember how it was solved. Helpful, right?

I've reset presets. I've reinstalled. I've rebooted several times. It just seems like it happened all of a sudden overnight.

I have four shoots this coming weekend and feel like puking if it's going to be like this. There's literally no way I can process shoots if Lightroom is going to crawl like this.