smapi 4.0.8

I'm playing with my partner who is the host, and we've never had prior problems with playing together until last night I updated SMAPI to 4.0.8. The game runs fine for a while but it randomly crashes when switching between areas, I haven't found that any particular areas that cause it either...

Hello, whenever I try to open the game there's an issue where it takes a LONG time to load before opening. When it does eventually open, the game will freeze on nearly every click of a new button. When I hit new game, it freezes for a long time,, when I try to change any of the farmer options...

(Cross posted from reddit because I haven't had any luck on the smapi forum.) I started playing again after a year hiatus, removed all my mods and started from scratch to make sure they were all compatible with 1.6 I was playing without issue for a few days- load times approx 5 minutes, but...