Another Update: I now have no mods at all in my game and made sure all caches are deleted. I go to build mode and my game gets stuck and stays that way for a while then it finally snaps out of it and I am able to continue. The white screen still appears to stall for a bit when I either load the game, but much more so when I exit out of either a world to enter another world or when I leave a lot to go to the next lot to do more builds then it too eventually clears up again. But it lasts long enough for me to worry my game is about to freeze again.
Another new occurrence is I was exiting a lot in Mt. Komorebi to go to another lot to do a build and the loading screen that shows the plumbob with all these sayings that scrolls along the bottom kept going, and going, and going. It didn't freeze altogether obviously, as new sayings kept scrolling along the bottom of the screen. But after 5 minutes it wouldn't exit out of that screen. I had to manually force my PC to shut down and restart my Pc back up again. I went into that same lot where the problem began and attempted to exit out like before where I had gotten stuck, but this time there was no hesitation or stall. It just quickly went to the world screen again.
Neither of these things has been a problem in the past for my games until most recently and too with the latest patch. Looks like it wasn't that one mod I found in my folder. Nor was it my other CC or Mods, as the same things are occurring without them.
Please help. Thank you.