Crash when accessing UI menus in editor

I’ve just gotten Unreal for the first time on a 16inch MacBook Pro 2021 (Apple M1 Max 64GB), and it’s extremely unstable. I’ve already given up pursuing this tool after 30 minutes of restarting constantly due to trivial crashes all over the place.

Just clicking ‘Window’ (if I can get the menus to do anything on click, which is pot lock), and mousing over a few menu items results in a beach ball.

I tried to attach a screen capture here, but new users can’t