Acrobat repeatedly crashes on MacOS Monterey M1 Max chip

I wonder if someone can help?

I am running MacOS Monterey on a 2021, 14-inch MacBook Pro, with an M1 Max chip and 64GB ram.

My machine seems incapable of running Adobe Acrobat DC - it keeps crashing on the opening of new documents (assuming I can get the program to open at all), and in turn causes the OS "Finder" app to crash and become unresponsive, too.  This often necessitates a full restart of the entire system.

It is problematic across two separate user profiles on the same machine.

I have uninstalled it - along with the whole Creative Cloud app - and reinstalled it on several occasions; including with the Creative Cloud "Cleaner Tool": all to no avail.

I'm tearing my hair out as it's causing huge amounts of time waste: I effectively cannot work on PDF documents at all, currently.

Any and all help much appreciated - thank you!