You're witnessing the final stage in the BitTorrent Client Lifecycle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621393

The solution is to switch to the latest "lightweight" client, and use it for about five years, until it also starts installing malware and mining bitcoin in the background.

The solution is to use FOSS client.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent