Hello Andreas,
in the meantime I tried the symlink option again.
I did a reinstall without deleting the xs folder then.
Basically it's working now (all processes running without issues), only the installer is still stuck:
As long as I don't encounter any errors I will probably leave it as it is now.
xs tool is working this time, no problems with access token...
Interesting fact: xs version gives me still 1.0.9, xs system-info 1.0.17 instead:
Would you recommend trying to fix this by either deleting xs folder and dirty reinstall or going back to snapshot and making the symlink before first installation attempt?