Thanks for the feedback, Basj. As per your suggestion I reinstalled the update. The update the second time was painfully slow compared to the first time for some reason but after rebooting things appear to be functioning properly. I'll keep my eye on things but for now it seems the issue is resolved although I'm definitely confused.
After installing 2024-07 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 22H2 (KB5040427) that Start11 v2 2.08 is breaking. When accessing the Start Menu if I click on any of the sub-menus or try to Shutdown, Reboot, etc, the menu ends up freezing and to gain access again Explorer.exe must be killed via Task Manager but it'll happen again if I try to use the Start Menu the same way. I seem to recall something like this has happened in the past. I uninstalled KB5040427 and the problem vanished.