Constant freezing / crashing in UT menus (PS5)

My game is constantly experiencing stupidly long waiting times. On UT, I’m constantly met with ‘checking for updates’, ‘updating store’, ‘checking your squad’ screens which are lasting several minutes at a time. I have deleted and reinstalled the game, cleared my ps5’s cache, rebuilt its database and it still happens. I have checked with my ISP and it is fine, no issues. I've tried changing MTU settings, DNS settings, but nothing seems to fix or help the issue.

Has anyone else has this issue with the game recently? It has started over the course of the last week and is seemingly getting worse and worse as you can see in the video attached to this...

If you have had this issue, can you recommend any changes / fixes? It seems to be an issue isolated to FC26 and UT specifically as I can play clubs and Battlefield 6 (another EA server game) with no issues...