Safari Save Dialog Is BROKEN

Ever since a recent update to Safari (not sure which one, there have been too many) the dialog window for Save As and Export as PDF is non-functional. Cannot navigate anywhere, everything is disabled on the dialog, the Save button is dimmed, and even the Cancel button doesn't work - the only way of closing the dialog is pressing the esc key. This used to work without issue (before somebody with too much time on their hands decided to "fix" something that wasn't broken). Restarting Safari sometimes fixes it, sometimes does not (either way you've lost all the loaded data on all the open webpages). Restarting the MacBook (either in Safe mode or normally) sometimes fixes it, sometimes does not (either way, now you've lost much more than just loaded webpage data - all open documents are now closed). Ventura 13.1 (more than half the problem right there), Safari 16.2 (the rest of the problem) running on a M1 MacBook Pro (and it's become very difficult to say "pro" these days without sounding sarcastic). This inconsistent/unreliable Safari glitch NEEDS TO GET FIXED!!!