re: DayZ - Console worth it?

I play on PS5.

The last hotfix...I think it was 1.49 or 1.51 maybe?...created a terrible problem driving vehicles. The game will randomly freeze anywhere from a few seconds to upwards of 5 minutes, resulting in crashing the vehicle, destroying it and sometimes killing you. My understanding is they changed something with how objects and zeds are rendered/spawned in and it's causing massive hard freezes traveling quickly. I've even froze a couple times while sprinting in Vybor (big town, lots of zeds and buildings). When I unfroze, I was unconscious from zeds smacking me while I was frozen helpless.

Everything else is really great. Just either don't use vehicles or drive them painfully slow and get killed by other players as you cruise at 15 kph. On foot, stop a bit before going into a big town or city and let the game spawn stuff in, then go loot.

ETA: problem also exists on XBox, but not sure it's as bad.