I was able to find a work around. I had a tablet that was not powered on to automatically take the update. I was able to pull the 1.17(22) build apk from that device and put it on my phone.. then ensure that turned off the automatic updates.
I have ran into this same issue after the 1.20 update. In looking at the catlog it shows that HTTP has been disabled(Cleartext HTTP traffic to mydomain .com not permitted). I also have my apache locked down to mitigate the risk running this on HTTP. apparently it is not easy to roll back updates on Android 12. I was not able to pull the previous from the Yalp Store. Curious if you were able to find a solution.