xlsx crashes R Studio, R.app (segfault) when loaded on macOS 14.2.1 MacBook Pro M3Max

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EDIT: After spending hours looking at this, I found this helpful post that solved the problem: mimno/RMallet#22 (comment)

ORIGINAL (shortened) POST (for anyone who runs into this)

On a new MacBook Pro M3Max, typing the following in R Studio Desktop (2023.12.0 Build 369 - latest) causes R Studio to crash ("R Session Aborted"):

library(xlsx)

R Version: 4.3.2 (aarch64-apple-darwin20 - latest from Cran)
rJava: 1.0.10 (Cran)
xlsx: 0.6.5 (Cran)
xlsxjars: 0.6.1 (Cran)
JDK: Oracle JDK SE11 version 11.0.21
Ran sudo R CMD javareconf before starting R Studio

Running the same command in R.app GUI (1.80 (8281) aarch64-apple-darwin20) crashes but provides more information:

> library(xlsx)

 *** caught segfault ***
address 0xfffffffffffffff8, cause 'invalid permissions'

Traceback:
 1: .jnew("org/apache/poi/xssf/usermodel/XSSFWorkbook")
 2: createWorkbook()
 3: fun(libname, pkgname)
 4: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
 5: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
 6: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
 7: tryCatch(fun(libname, pkgname), error = identity)
 8: runHook(".onLoad", env, package.lib, package)
 9: loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)
10: doTryCatch(return(expr), name, parentenv, handler)
11: tryCatchOne(expr, names, parentenv, handlers[[1L]])
12: tryCatchList(expr, classes, parentenv, handlers)
13: tryCatch({    attr(package, "LibPath") <- which.lib.loc    ns <- loadNamespace(package, lib.loc)    env <- attachNamespace(ns, pos = pos, deps, exclude, include.only)}, error = function(e) {    P <- if (!is.null(cc <- conditionCall(e)))         paste(" in", deparse(cc)[1L])    else ""    msg <- gettextf("package or namespace load failed for %s%s:\n %s",         sQuote(package), P, conditionMessage(e))    if (logical.return && !quietly)         message(paste("Error:", msg), domain = NA)    else stop(msg, call. = FALSE, domain = NA)})
14: library(xlsx)

Possible actions:
1: abort (with core dump, if enabled)
2: normal R exit
3: exit R without saving workspace
4: exit R saving workspace
Selection: