Audition 12.1 takes 80,744 ticks to complete "Initializing (AuUI)"

Folks,

As the title states, this version takes this much time to complete this step of the initialization process every time I start Audition.  It works fine after initialization completes.  Version 11 has no issues.  I find Version 12 unusable until this issue is resolved.  I have tried resetting to the defaults, but no luck.  i am using a mid 2015 Macbook Pro with Mojave (10.14.4) at the moment.  Below is a clip of the log file.  Please help.

Ticks = 2492      <4519183808> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Initializing AuUI

Ticks = 83236      <4519183808> <AuLog.Startup> <5> Setting up temp directories

Ticks = 83268      <4519183808> <AuLog.Startup> <5> AuUI initialization sequence complete.

Thanks,

Blaine