Infinite loading issue causes game save data to be lost

For months now there has been an issue on the PS4 version of the game that causes the game to not save. I have experienced this on several worlds and it has not changed in any of the games updates. The issue is when finishing a play session and exiting to the main menu, the game just infinitely saves/loads, staying on that spinning screen with the text box in the middle. I have attempted to wait this out for hours to no end, leaving the only solution to be force closing the game. All progress made in the play session is then lost, no matter how long I have played whether it be for several hours or only a few minutes. It doesn't happen every time, but it does often enough to make it hard to enjoy playing when anything I do could be lost. I have found it to be more common with worlds I have played in longer, for example a world I have had for months is more likely to experience it than one from a few days ago.