It’s easy to check if you’re affected: Just open Settings, System and then Storage. Next, click on “Show more categories” and look for “System & reserved.” If the “System files” category contains more than around 100GB you’re likely to be affected.
I checked mine, and I’m not affected.
Wonderful. So instead of updating settings in their internal DB it writes new records constantly and explodes the file to devour the disk.
Noting the linked article also recommends WizTree. Yes, you can do everything it does with commands and/or scripts; but a fast method with visualizations built-in is nice.