Zone transitioning stutter!

When transitioning from zone to zone in the outer world, doesn’t matter if you’re running or mounted, there is a 0.5 to 1 sec “stutter” or delay before the subsequent zone “loads in".” This bug just started to occur at the start of season 14. If I had to guess, it has something to do with the seasonal theme. The ruptures or “tears” that spawn in from zone to zone.

All of my friends that play on PlayStation are experiencing this same issue. On ALL versions of the PlayStation 5 console (Pro, base, and slim).

THIS WILL GET SOMEONE KILLED ON HARDCORE!! (Because of the latency of the monsters appearing as well)

Please fix as this has drastically reduced the morale of gameplay.