Elements 2022 on macOS 12 Monterey question about Save As:

Hello, I have used Elements since V3 (and numerous other Photoshop programs since early '90s). I just moved from Elements 2018 to 2022 and am stumped by the Save As dialog box behavior. Hopefully I can describe this issue I am seeing:

I am running on macOS 12 Monterey (which has it's own baggage) and have never used Elements Organizer and attempt to disable all connections to it as I have a decades old file organization

Lets assume for example that I want to save in format Photoshop
Save As: <provide a filename>

Then I alter the image and want to save another version of it
Problem occurs with the Save As: dialog box

I used to simply highlight .<extension> and then overtype it and let Elements add the .psd suffix during the save.

This is not currently working. If I select and overtype the '.' and/or the '.<extension> Elements lets you type 1 character then immediately appends the extension, creating gibberish

- Save As: Untitled-1.psd
- select '.psd' and attempt to enter '_Ver2' and you will get 'Untitled-1_.psdVers2'

If that description made sense, is there a way to defeat this behavior? I don't remember this happening in any Elements 2018 or older or CS6.

thanks for any insights