Signing out and back in does not resolve the issue. For some reason it now shows I have two realms. One with 7 days and the world I was playing in and a second without my worlds and the rest of my 6 months time. Very strange.
This happens for me moments after pushing the Play button. It doesn't even crash all the way. It's like a second after I push Play and the game options come up, the game minimizes and I have to select it to load again.
I should add that this happens on my android tablet.
I agree. It's like playing with numb hands. Within 5 minutes of starting play after the patch, I managed to drop and lose my netherite sword. Then just a few minutes ago, I somehow lost my loyalty trident while fighting underwater. I immediately searched for it, but couldn't find it anywhere. All the drowned were dead and nothing was floating. That may be another bug somehow, but I was attributing it to fumbling around.
Correction. Logging in and out did work after I cleared Minecraft's Cache.