I observed that area around the waypoints can be dangerous (don’t like this, btw), so after waiting a few secs with no aggro on me, I tried to find the waypoint on the world map I wanted to quick travel to. While the world map is open, the game is continuing though - which resulted me dying of random background aggro at the exact moment of starting the quick travel. When I was presented with the Respawn screen (see referenced screenshot) and hit respawn the game could not decide what to do really, but then I realized that even though the ‘Respawn’ screen remained in place, the game was very much active behind this screen! I could move, cast, kill monsters ‘normally’ - but could not get rid of the respawn screen. Until somewhat later, when I hit Esc several times in a row and then the screen eventually retruned to normal game screen.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WNsL1kvs_DGLM04RNaTL8ze_ApQEnYgQ/view?usp=sharing