'Other' mystery still unsolved.

The problem of large, disturbing and obtrusive 'other' storage is still (unnacceptably) unsolved.
After following many suggestions, links, hints etc I am STILL left with an excess of 200GBs of 'other' storage amd no answers, as are many other users.
Is it possible that as an Apple community we are unable to solve this, or Apple itself? We are all proud of our Macs, but having to try justify this is impossible and not necassary at all. if you google this problem you find endless questions and numerous answers none of which seem to hit the nail on the head.
Omnidisk Sweeper, Disk Inventory X, etc, none have solved this. Mail is clean, Time Machine is off, I could go on but you get the point.
As a community, can we finally put this to sleep?
I urge all of the more advanced users to try and assist all of us with this problem, short of reformatting, what can be done?
As is perhaps obvious the issue causes overheating, performance issues amongst many other unpleasantries.
Here are some screen shots to illustrate the problem, the latter being taken just 5 days later showing how 'other' has grown.
I thank you in advance.

I cannot detect what is taking up this space, no visual representation or logical calculation seems to be working, I do not have that much 'data' in any form on my Mac.
I once fixed a relative's problem by deleting Mail.app backups which filled up an entire hard drive, but that seems not to be the case here yet my computer does heat up and slow down until I delete something, which shows that the 'other' capacity is having a negative system impact, or that is is being calculated as real storage...

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