I ran into this as well and filed this as FB25346707.
I had an AI make a little tool to automatically kill fseventsd when the problems start, see https://github.com/Hixie/contraptions/tree/main/fseventsd-watchdog (includes an analysis of the failure, which matches rossc719's earlier account exactly).
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Core OS
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