My load times on my save are far longer than they used to be. Each wait is around 30ish minutes to load, and then the game runs fine until I sleep and the cycle repeats with the new in-game day loading.

Recently I've made a couple small fruit tree guilds, which are made exclusively of planters and pots. So I wondered if that was a culprit.

I tried the loading fix offered in the most recent update, but it didn't seem to do anything.

The load generally goes like this: it does the loading animation normally for several seconds, with the usual stutter every now and again, followed by a freeze. The game freezes for the rest of the wait time, but so long as I leave it (I can minimize and do something else), it eventually starts back up and it's all good.