Julia Tab Completion is Slow in directories with many items

In the REPL, when I try to use strings, REPL keeps hanging in directories with many items.

I have a directory with around 400+ items, all of which are dates from 2020-01-01 to 2020-12-31, and Julia keeps hanging (and is very slow to autocomplete) when I try to define strings.

For example

fnc = "2020-01-01"

Julia REPL keeps hanging at

fnc = "

Update: pkg> also has problems

(@v1.11) pkg> activate 

hangs after the space after activate.