Can't start instant meeting on Zoom Workplace for Mac - update

I used to be able to start an ad hoc meeting immediately off this page. I see the Start Meeting button on the dashboard page and it allows me to use my ID, etc. but the button does nothing.

There are other more cumbersome ways to start the meeting but I'd like to fix this one. 

Zoom also logs me out between uses and I have to login manually each time. Maybe all of this is related somehow. Zoom does seem to be suffering from bloat. 

Mac Sequoia, Zoom 6.2.5