promisify crashing node

I have several different packages where semantic release is no longer working.
The last line in the log is this:

[3:27:11 PM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"

The exit code is 0 so my pipelines proceed but no release is created.
This happens on several repositories, most open source, I'll link some CI traces here:

The code causing this issue lives in load-parser-config.js:

export default async ({ preset, config, parserOpts, presetConfig }, { cwd, logger }) => {
  let loadedConfig;
  const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

  if (preset) {
    const presetPackage = `conventional-changelog-${preset.toLowerCase()}`;
    loadedConfig = importFrom(cwd, presetPackage);
  } else if (config) {
    loadedConfig = importFrom.silent(__dirname, config) || importFrom(cwd, config);
  } else {
    loadedConfig = conventionalChangelogAngular;
  }

  // Comments added by @sammousa. 
  // loadedConfig is an async function, specifically the createPreset export from conventional-changelog-conventionalcommits package
  // which implements the conventional commit standard that this package uses
  loadedConfig = await (typeof loadedConfig === "function"
      ? isPlainObject(presetConfig)
          ? loadedConfig(presetConfig)
          // this line crashes nodejs silently when called with an async function
          : promisify(loadedConfig)()
      : loadedConfig);

  return { ...loadedConfig.parserOpts, ...parserOpts };
};

The bug is definitely in nodeJS, the fix for this package however would be to not use promisify at all, since we're calling the function directly if there IS a configuration, why not also call it directly when there isn't?