Reproduction steps:
1. Open the user's attached project
2. Delete the 'Library/ShaderCache' folder
3. Replace the manifest.json file in the project with the attached 'manifest_to_be_replaced'
4. Open the 'MainLevel_Menu' Scene
5. Observe a crash

Reproducible with: 2022.2.0a10, 2022.2.0a15
Not reproducible with: 2019.4.39f1, 2020.3.34f1, 2021.3.3f1, 2022.1.2f1, 2022.2.0a9

Reproduced on: macOS 11.6 (Intel)

Note: changing URP and Visual Effect Graph packages separately doesn't cause the issue

First lines of the stack trace:
#0 0x000001104923d3 in ComputeShader::SetValueParam(ShaderLab::FastPropertyName const&, int, void const)
#1 0x0000011108808e in VFXManager::ZeroInitializeBuffer(GraphicsBuffer, unsigned int, unsigned int, bool)
#2 0x0000011105989c in VFXParticleSystem::InitBuffers()
#3 0x000001110599da in VFXParticleSystem::Init()
#4 0x00000111093702 in VisualEffect::InitData(VFXPropertySheetSerializedComponent const&, bool)