Adobe Bridge 12.0.0.234 using Camera Raw 14.0.0.950

Windows 10 Pro for Workstations 20H2 OS Build 19042.1348

In Adobe Bridge set Camera Raw Preferences to embed XMP in DNG file.

To reproduce fault.
Double click on a DNG file you want to rotate.
Select Crop Tool and Click on Rotate 90 degrees icon (CW of ACW). The photo rotates.
Click on Done.
Image Preview is not rotated - double clicking back into image shows the photo is not rotated.

In Adobe Bridge click on rotate icon (CW or ACW) - preview rotates.
Double click on image to start in Camera Raw and image is not rotated.
Click on Done and Adobe Bridge preview is reset to not rotated.

However, if you set Camera Raw Preferences to Always use Sidecar files and follow the same sequence the image rotates and stays rotated.

Set the preference back to embed XMP in DNG and the fault returns. So the problem must lie in writing the XMP into the DNG file.

This was working up until the latest update.

I have tried DNG files from two different sources: a camera and a scanner and Adobe Bridge/Camera raw shows the same bug with both.

I have seen one other instances of someone reporting a similar fault.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-bugs/p-new-update-not-saving-image-rotation/idi-p/12490690

All the other options in raw I have tried work and the changes are retained.

I have always cropped my images in camera raw, but it no longer works. With a raw image open in camera raw, if I click on the crop tool icon in the upper right side of the screen, handles appear on the corners and mid point of the image. But when I try to click and drag one of the handles inward to crop the image, a box appears in the middle of the screen, and the image zooms to 100% size. There is no way to use this tool anymore. I have tried for several hours to find a way to reset it but I'm stumped. IF anyone knows how to fix this, I would sure appreciate some help. Thanks.

I just had the recent update I guess if I look at my updates camera raw is at 13.3 right now.

If I am not mistaking there's a new functionality integrated in camera raw that opens photoshop when double clicking the thumbnail in the row in Camera raw

This function closes camera raw and starts opening photoshop

I have just accidentally executed this function for the 15th time because sometimes bridge lags when I try to move to the next image making me double click booting me from the viewer and having me have to terminate photoshop and re open all the images in camera raw. I have to go through 2000 images and I can't get past 100 without opening Photshop 15 TIMES!!!

This never happend before and it is absurdly annoying and wasting my time!

On MacOS Big Sur v.11.2.1
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, mid-2015)
Processor: 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 M370X 2 GB

Since updating to the latest version of Bridge and Camera RAW, I have barely been able to work at all on adjusting images, and before I was able to adjust tons of images at once in Camera RAW. There is definitely something wrong with how this update was rolled out, because it just keeps eating up memory exponentially more and more, until the whole system becomes bogged down. I've tried searching for preference adjustments and so on to try, and have tried adjusting settings in Camera Raw preferences based on what I've read on blogs so far, like adjusting the Graphics Processor on the Performance tab to Custom, and then checking Use GPU for display and also Use GPU for Image Processing. It seemed to help a tiny bit at first, and then the same issue started happening. It's ridiculous. I have used Bridge for my photography adjusting for the past 12 years or so, and have never had an issue like this. It makes the program completely unusable. Surely you guys are getting this feedback from many many many many many many people???!!! I am not technically non-proficient, and this is clearly an error that was introduced in terms of how Bridge processes and manages its resources. I need to know now how to re-install a much older version of Bridge, as I have been paying for Creative Cloud and faithfully updating every time you put out an update, but I can't work at all right now.