I've been in contact with support, and they have confirmed the bug, but there's no ETA on the fix as far as I understood.
The last hotfix patch had a fix in the changelog that I thought would help (Fixed a crash that could happen when loading game or returning to main menu (destroying AiGrid)), but the error still occurs for me.
I appreciate that their support and devs are working on it, but after not being able to play the game for several weeks, my interest in the title is vaining. Might try a refund request to GOG later on.