Just make sure WebGL is not enabled in your preferences and you should be fine (choose SVG). You probably won’t even hit the issue since it seems to be an untested edge case.
As for installing 5.7 that’s not as easy as you think. It was my first idea but it’s not available to download, only 5.8 and 5.5 and previous. Once you’re on the latest upgrade train it’s not possible to roll back.