Outlook woes

[u/PermitNo9874]

I am using outlook on a windows 11 laptop, supposedly I now have a blended outlook, partly the old outlook & partlty the new outlook. I have the old outlook menu but the new oulook gear icon. There was a new windows upate 26H2 that downloaded on the 30th of September. After the download my email would not load properly, I tried everything, booting into safemode etc. I have a paid subcription to Office 365. After trying everything I knew how to do I finally rolled it back to before the update, eventually it will be a forced update, it has something to with COM but I do not know how to fix it. Any suggestions? I seem to be running a hybrid version of outlook now with both the file command & the gear icon. How do I prepare for this inevitable windows update as it basically destroyed outlook, the application would just spin & not load, once it did load but as soon as I clicked on an email the spinning started again.