"New Meeting" on home page of Mac desktop app does not start meeting

[pbanas]

I used to be able to start an ad hoc meeting immediately off this page. Now the button looks like I can click on it, but does not start a meeting. 

Additionally, the Schedule button is greyed out. 

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.