I'm out of ideas.
Neither @Microsoft nor @MojangSupport have given anything resembling actual support for this issue.
All I want to do is be able to play Minecraft Bedrock Edition on my Windows 10 machine. All relevant info: https://old.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kvdyeb/cant_seem_to_run_bedrock_edition_after_the_latest/ …
No custom worlds, unfortunately. Just as a safeguard, I even went so far as to delete the entire %AppData%\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MinecraftUWP_[hash] subdir, to no avail.