I changed default bytecode provider in Environment.buildBytecodeProvider and rerun tests. It doesn't make any difference, still getting StackOverlowError.

Out of curiosity, could we enable javassist as the bytecode provider & rerun the test to see whether we get the same StackOverflow? I'm curious if we don't, maybe that can help us knowing the two providers are doing something different here.

unfortunately no

Putting my naive hat on: I suppose we don't have an unobfuscated version of the driver handy?