Window and App Issues with Tahoe

Ever since I installed Tahoe I've been having issues with managing windows and with Apple's Pages and Numbers apps. I experienced the issues with both versions 26.0 and 26.0.1.

The issue with managing windows primarily relates to bringing a window to the front. In prior versions of MacOS, clicking a window would bring it to the front. Now that often doesn't happen. Even clicking in a window's title bar is not enough to bring the window to the front. However, clicking in a windows that is not in the front seems to give that window the focus but clicking in the front window does not return the focus to the front window. Very frustrating! I am not using Stage Manager. It seems that Tahoe broke something or there's been a significant, non-intuitive design change.

I can often work around the issue by using the dock or Command-Tab to bring an application to the front. Within an application, using the Window menu to bring a window to the front still work reliably.

Also, with Tahoe the Pages and Numbers app having been hanging or crashing much more than usual (which is practically never for me). Sometimes I try to bring one of those apps to the front and it stops responding.

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues? If so, have you found a fix, such as a setting that can be changed to prevent the issues from occurring?