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I have a friend buying a shared ownership flat - she has had to use the housing association recommended (well, enforced) solicitors and they are utterly shit. So I can understand that plus EWS = no fun.
It does seem like a lot of solicitors have taken on more than they can chew but to be fair I don't think it's much fun being a conveyancing solicitor at the moment.
https://www.todaysconveyancer.co.uk/main-news/conveyancers-considering-leaving-the-profession-due-to-mental-health/
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I have a friend buying a shared ownership flat - she has had to use the housing association recommended (well, enforced) solicitors and they are utterly shit.
A friend of mine had the same. They managed to get his name and the address of the flat he was buying wrong on the documentation and when they sent him their comments on the lease it was obviously generic comments as it included comments on a whole variety of things that weren't actually in his lease.
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Selling a shared ownership flat meant dealing with an incompetent housing association, compounded by various EWS related issues that ultimately meant the buyer had to start from scratch with a different lender. Then our solicitor seemed to get greedy with all the stamp duty holiday demand and took on more clients than they could handle effectively. And I think the same for the seller's solicitor. So enquiries were going unanswered for weeks or months, with no one chasing (apart from me). Light at the end of the tunnel now... I hope.