This is serious. I've had 8 crashes in 30 minutes. Everything from browsing skins to flying with an Elytra. I play bedrock on the Switch. The game is completely unplayable right now. Starting to regret purchasing a realm...
Thank you Mega_Spud. I have discovered that slimes spawning in slime chunks is greatly effected by sky access. I finally found a chunk and cleared all blocks from y39 to y63.
Results were that slimes would spawn on the top layer as a "surface spawn" but layers below would have nothing - no "cave spawns".
If cave mobs are not despawning (which we know they're not) then that may be a significant part of the issue, and if cave spawns are not despawning then we'll never see slimes underground, making it largely impossible to locate a slime chunk. There's definitely a linkage as described above.
I'm going to echo Christian's comments above. Playing bedrock edition on Nintendo Switch I have been unable to find slimes in slime chunks. Experimenting with super-flat and creative and intermittently utilizing the /kill @e command resulted in a net of two slimes over the course of an hour's game play. Something is seriously wrong with slime spawning.
I can confirm that this guardian farm works on bedrock edition: https://youtu.be/RfcTlmXip8Q
30 levels in 4 minutes but the farm does require you to use the nether.