A quick follow-up: I realized that for over a year, I never received an in-game prompt to update via the Play Store, nor did I feel the need to check for updates manually because the game always ran without issues.
It seems the app was updating itself entirely in the background all this time. I suspect that this long period of background-only updates led to a massive buildup of data that was never properly cleaned up, eventually resulting in the 33 GB of 'data garbage' I found after the latest rollout. This might be a key factor for the technical team to investigate.
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