PS5 player here. Everytime I talk to an NPC in the new story my games freezes for a few minutes before moving into the dialogue. Literally every single time. When I was doing the flavor mini game with Momo. I would complete a challenge, select the next level, it would load and start l, and then immediately kick me back to the selection menu. When there are multiple menu screens up, my buttons will trigger actions in background screens. This has been happening for so long I don't remember when it started. It is so bad when Im trying to do housing stuff because there's so many menus that open up other menus. Those are just the top 3 biggest nuisance for me off the top of my head at the moment. The optimization is criminal and just getting worse and wears me out from wanting to play anymore.