Just had this exact issue 5 minutes ago. Went to post about it and saw this thread. Kind of disappointing as I had a template I wanted to use for multiple renders which I now cant access without the hell-recursion happening.
If there's anything I can do to help (logfiles, etc) please reach out. I really enjoy the software and have been using it for effects for my twitch stream, but as the above person said this is a really bad bug.