Game freezes with every autosave & kicks anyone in the server locally or online

Every time I try and play minecraft for Nintendo switch and autosave activates, the entire game freezes for usually 30-45 seconds (occasionally up to 1 minute and 30 seconds) no matter what I do. I've tried multiple troubleshoots—turning my system off and on, making sure it's fully updated, disconnecting and reconnecting online in the game, deleting and redownloading the game/save data in case of corrupt download data, even checking, testing, and re-entering my system's internet data, and probably several more I couldn't name over the last week. Regardless of whether I'm connected to the internet or not, the game freezes. 

Secondarily, whenever someone joins my world (no matter the amount of people and their own lack of issues in their worlds in other systems) and autosave activates, the game freezes as I said AND kicks them from my world. They cannot join for longer than a few minutes each time due to the spacing between autosaves which makes it impossible to do anything worthwhile. I installed the latest update as of 4/29/2022 and the problem not only persists but seems distinctly worse. PLEASE help.