This issue occurs with HWG, Azure Lib, and SmartBrainLib. But the main issue is that while the game loads, it fails to render due to the error code listed below...

• The game crashed whilst unexpected error
  Error: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "net.minecraft.class_5944.setSampler(int, Object)" because "shaderinstance" is null

Don't use Optifine, use Sodium and Iris. Optifine is closed sourced ARR