Firstly, hello and welcome to the forums!
We have had a lengthy forum thread about this at Latte Dock Maintainer Bids A Farewell
Also, Latte-dock has been buggy for quite a lot of people lately as I’ve seen an influx of posts on this topic, so it isn’t just you. Even resetting the configuration using Garuda Assistant doesn’t fix it for some.
I am unsure what the team is going to do about this in the future if things with latte-dock get worse.
I however do know you can get really close to the default latte-dock feel in base Plasma using either the same or similar widgets (got one going right now on one of my machines so I have a “backup plan” if latte-dock starts messing up really bad)