My system is acting near normal. It takes a couple more "button pushes", but I do get there. When CarPlay loads, a song from my last selected station starts playing. A couple of "taps" and I have the Now Playing screen up and running. Totally livable arrangement. I have the latest Pandora and IOS 18.0.1. I still get the "Loading" notification, but I just ignore it and select the "volume ?" icon top right and I am in the Pandora system. I'd make a video of the entire process, but I'm not sure I could upload it.
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