Please try now and report back! I've deployed a super experimental fix for the crashing that solved it for my test setup personally. No promises but hopefully it will help while Adobe releases an official fix.
How about when wind is blowing against anything other than a Ghost object, the wind behind the object will stop blowing, whereas everywhere else is still windy?
Effects can not be saved since they can potentially appear dozens or even hundreds of times (overwriting other effects infinitely) on any position on an item, it's just not feasible to serialise them.
Please try now and report back! I've deployed a super experimental fix for the crashing that solved it for my test setup personally. No promises but hopefully it will help while Adobe releases an official fix.