[MCL-23741] Launcher crashes immediately on macOS

Update 2023-09-15T00:31:23Z: dragging the Minecraft launcher to the Trash and re-installing it from Minecraft.dmg and "launching" it resulted in a fresh download of files (3 hours after initial report) and a successful launch of the launcher. So it looks like the problem has been resolved. Thanks!

(Nice to know they test this stuff thoroughly on macOS 😜)

Original report left for posterity:

Minecraft Launcher as of 2023-09-14 reported that it had an update ready. I stopped and restarted the app so it could apply the update.

However, after application, the launcher no longer launches 😉. It fails on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs (tested with macOS 13.4 and 13.5.2).

I have no idea if the "Affects version" is correct, as I would usually look at the launcher window to determine that—and, of course, I cannot even get a launcher window.

It crashes immediately with:

Process:               launcher [88705]
Path:                  /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher
Identifier:            com.mojang.minecraftlauncher
Version:               1.3.7 (1)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Translated)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               501Date/Time:             2023-09-14 16:16:56.6563 -0500
OS Version:            macOS 13.4 (22F66)
Report Version:        12
Anonymous UUID:        34513CBE-4E13-BE46-0659-99D7A70C0D3FSleep/Wake UUID:       01F0D8A5-F610-486D-BC2A-67BEA1F8EAD3Time Awake Since Boot: 770000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       725030 secondsSystem Integrity Protection: enabledCrashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-threadException Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000Application Specific Information:
abort() called