[Affinity Photo keeps crashing when I try to search fonts]

I have the latest version of Affinity 1.10.5, and Windows 11 Pro, 21H2 version. I reinstalled the system from scratch a few weeks ago. Affinity Photos worked perfectly. 

I haven't used Affinity Photo for about a week or two. Today, when I start either the Artistic Text Tool or the Frame Text Tool, and I try to search for a font, Affinity Photo freezes for a few seconds, then closes. It happens in brand new files and in old files that used to work. I didn't even try anything more complex. 

Looking around the suggestions other people received when they complained about Affinity crashing since the end of September 2022... I'm not happy. Here are a few things I investigated after reading answers for other users for whom Affinity Photo kept crashing over the past few days"

• none of the things in this list is on my computer https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/44770-issues-caused-by-third-party-software/ 
• I disabled the Hardware acceleration option from Edit - Preferences - Performance. No change.
• my Crash reports folder is empty, I have nothing to attach.
• my OS is up to date (without any optional updates)
• I'm not part of the Windows insider program
• BUT although in my update history I don't see the KB5017264, but I have the 2022-09 cumulative update KB5017859, which apparently includes it. And this is a "known problem".

If this Windows update is the reason Affinity doesn't work, I'm just not going to use Affinity for a while because I don't feel okay about removing a system update. Sorry, Serif, but if I have to choose between Microsoft and you, I'll have to trust Microsoft. 

My laptop is pretty clutter-free when it comes to apps, but none of my other apps acts up. 

There were various comments in this forum about this issue being a user problem, not an Affinity problem. If that's the case, maybe I'm not the right Affinity user, which is sad. I was a champion of this software.

The only reason I'm posting this is to show that there are more people experiencing this issue. I don't expect any suggestions that weren't already suggested in the threads I read. It just seemed to me that most of the ones who posted were told that there weren't many complaints about it so there's not going to be a patch for this issue. I can live without Affinity for a few weeks, and I really hope that future Windows updates will fix this.