The latest version of Premiere Pro Beta 24.5.0.010 crashes immediately after opening any of my projects I was working just before the update. I was able to narrow it down to the Essential Sound panel. Even if I create an empty new project with no media in it, whenever I try to open the Essential Sound panel the Program crashes immediately.
All my projects have the Essential sound panel open in the Workspace. I was able to isolate it by Resetting the Premier Pro Beta's Workspace to something that doesn't include the Essential Sound (for example Learn) and uncheck the option to Import the Workspace from Projects. And after that I'm able to open my Projects without Premiere crashing. Although, I cannot use the Essential sound. So, I'm back to using the Release version of Premiere Pro.