Smuggler's Stash Delve Nodes Consistent Crash When Exiles Killed Too Early

I can't provide an image since the game crashes immediately when the conditions trigger.

I was wrestling with this problem for a while before figuring it out and reproducing it consistently.

When you enter the encounter area of a Smuggler's Stash node in Delve, regardless of what kind of reward it has (fossils, treasure, etc), if you kill or attack the exiles too early, the game immediately freezes and crashes to desktop after 10ish seconds.

WORKAROUND: Luckily there is a way around it for now - I figured out if I wait for the exiles to come out of their camps and begin moving before attacking them, then the node does not cause a crash and everything runs smoothly.

I've been able to reproduce both the crash and the solution consistently - across various different Smuggler's Stash nodes as well as the same nodes (ie. I path to a node, it crashes because I attacked the exiles too early - before they leave their tents - I then relog into PoE, path to the same node, wait for them to leave their tents, then kill them and there's no crash.

EDIT: I believe a similar/related issue may be happening with certain heist enemies - particularly the ones that spawn when you're unlocking the big chests in contracts/blueprints. I've crashed when killing them as well and I suspect it might be because they're killed too quickly.