Face ID Not Working [Fixed. Please see the approved answer for details.]

I have had the issue described on 1pwd 8 shortly after I purchased. Have seen the posts for over a month ( many have had the issue much longer) that an update is coming soon - this is unacceptable for a mobile app developer to allow a user experience issue of this magnitude go unresolved for this long. This is clearly a major issue that 1PWD either cannot resolve or had to make such a significant change to fix it required a long turn around to fully test. Regardless - the TBD on the time frame means they may not have a fix identified or issues may yet persist / they cannot release / are not confident on release timeframe. There are other solutions on the market - I can not type my master pw multiple times a day for another day. Moving on.