Hello,
pressing 1 or 2 during the Muffin game hang got me past it, thanks for the workaround. 8 minutes to load on a 2015 Macbook Pro (2.2GHz quad core I7)? Does the game attempt to check for updates after the initial announcement to enable Blind Friendly mode or something? I never saw this behavior on MacOS-10.14, from announcement to the main screen only took about 5 seconds.