I can’t play with my friends on Minecraft ps4

I am having trouble playing online with my friends. Ever since you guys released the new bedrock edition update on PlayStation 4 in around December of 2019 I haven’t been able to play with any of my friends. The only way for me to play with one of my friends is for both him and me to play on the “editions” version, so basically we need to play on the old version. However my other friend that bought the game more recently doesn’t have the option to play the “editions” version, therefore making us unable to play with each other. Every time either of us invite the other person to a game, it starts to load and after a solid like 1 minute a message appears, saying “connection time out, unable to connect to world”. Me and my friends have sat for hours searching on the internet and trying every possible solution that we could find including, logging in or out of our Microsoft accounts, re-downloading the game, spam-clicking the join button, checking to see if our Microsoft accounts have the “allow multiplayer” option turned on, creating new Microsoft accounts and a lot more and nothing have worked at all. It has now been almost a year and you guys still haven’t fixed this issue and It’s gotten to the point were I don’t even play the game anymore. I’ve seen many people on the internet having this exact problem so it’s not only me complaining. Please try fixing this problem since it has ruined both mine and countless other players gaming experience on your otherwise amazing game.