Sorry to hear about your issues. On an Intel Mac, we're able to do a Shift-Option-Command-R at startup to install the macOS that came with the Mac. This is detailed
here.
However, there's no mention of doing the same with M1 Macs. (You could try, though, but the recovery boot process is different, so it may not work at all.)
It also appears that you can create and use a bootable installer on M1 Macs. That process is detailed
here. You'll need to actually have a disk image of the version of macOS you previously had, though. I'm not sure how you would be able to make that happen through "official" channels.
When you say you "wiped the drive," does that mean you actually erased the entire partition completely in recovery mode and then did a clean install, or did you instead just do the "Reinstall macOS" from the recovery options? The latter just "refreshes" the OS without erasing the data partition, as I understand it, so that might not help with your issues.
Also, did you try rebooting in safe mode, to see if the cause might be a conflict with software you have installed? Instructions for that are
here.
The other thing I might suggest is if you have a Time Machine backup from the previous macOS version, you could completely erase the hard disk from recovery and then reinstall from that old version. I don't know if that will give you back the old version—it depends on how Time Machine backups are made on M1 Macs. (Unfortunately, I don't yet own an M1 Mac—only Intel models...) However, there is a MacRumors thread on this that might help you with that process:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/looking-to-reformat-or-erase-your-m1-mac.2272484/
Again, you'll need a Time Machine backup from the old version—if you don't have that, this naturally won't work.
Just some ideas... hope something helps, even a little bit!
