Photoshop 22 does not access neural filters - gets stuck in the "spinning circle mode"

MacOS 10.14.6  , Photoshop 22.
Just (October 21 2020, evening, US Pacific) installed Photoshop 22 via CreativeCloudApp.

Launched it for the first time, was able to successfully download a neural filter for colorizing old photos and colorized one of them. 
Opened another old photo;  clicked on the "Neural filters .." now it just opens a side panel and spins the wheel (circle forever). Photoshop itself is hung, have to do CMD-W to break the hang. Cannot see the filter list / filter panle AT ALL.
(needles to say that I have restarted Photoshop gazilion times) See the attached screenshot:

Tried removing / cleaning removing the flter plugin directory as it has been suggested in another thread:

cd ./Application\ Support/Adobe/UXP/PluginsStorage/PHSP/22/Internal/com.adobe.nfp.gallery
rm -rf PluginData

Start Photoshop, the same result. The PluginData/  catalog gets recreated immediately, has some data in it :

xian:com.adobe.nfp.gallery alex$ ls -lR PluginData/ | wc

      53     374    2680

xian:com.adobe.nfp.gallery alex$ ls -lR PluginData/ | wc

      53     374    2680

xian:com.adobe.nfp.gallery alex$ ls -lR PluginData/ | wc

      53     374    2680

xian:com.adobe.nfp.gallery alex$ 

The above listings were done about 5 mins apart, apparently nothing gets added / downloaded while Photoshop continues spining the circle as shown on the screenshot.
The content os the PluginData/ :

xian:com.adobe.nfp.gallery alex$ ls -l PluginData/

total 136

drwxr-xr-x   4 alex  staff    128 Oct 22 00:51 FaceSeg

drwxr-xr-x   4 alex  staff    128 Oct 22 00:51 FaceSegnentation

drwxr-xr-x  31 alex  staff    992 Oct 22 00:51 StyleGan2Cloud

drwxr-xr-x   4 alex  staff    128 Oct 22 00:51 StyleGan2OnDevice2

-rw-r--r--   1 alex  staff  67361 Oct 22 00:51 manifest.json

xian:com.adobe.nfp.gallery alex$ 

So apparently some filter got downloaded but they are not accessible either. 

I know at least three other persons who have exactly the same issue .

It feels like a major bug to me -  the guys at Adobe have some serious issues to solve and fix.

The product is definitely not ready for prime time.

Please let us all  know when it is fixed.