Can't get server Event Handling to work

I’ve written a .NET server event handler. The problem is that when my code hits the Notifier.StartAsync line:

        using (var notifier = await Notifier.StartAsync(config))

the program just exits and stops - it never goes into a state where it’s waiting for changes. What am I doing wrong?

This is my code:

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args) => MainAsync().Wait();

    public static async Task MainAsync()
    {

        // Login the admin user
        var credentials = Credentials.UsernamePassword(Constants.RealmUsername, Constants.RealmPassword, createUser: false);
        var admin = await User.LoginAsync(credentials, new Uri($"https://{Constants.RealmUrl}"));

        var config = new NotifierConfiguration(admin)
        {
            // Add all handlers that this notifier will invoke
            WorkingDirectory = Path.Combine(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), Constants.NotifierDirectory),
            Handlers = { new NotesHandler() }
        };
        config.WorkingDirectory = config.WorkingDirectory + "/" + RandomString(10);

        // Start the notifier. Your handlers will be invoked for as
        // long as the notifier is not disposed.
        using (var notifier = await Notifier.StartAsync(config))
        {
            do
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Type in 'exit' to quit the app.");
            }
            while (Console.ReadLine() != "exit");
        }
    }

    public static string RandomString(int length)
    {
        Random random = new Random();
        const string chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
        return new string(Enumerable.Repeat(chars, length)
          .Select(s => s[random.Next(s.Length)]).ToArray());
    }

    class NotesHandler : RegexNotificationHandler
    {
        // The regular expression you provide restricts the observed Realm files
        // to only the subset you are actually interested in. This is done to 
        // avoid the cost of computing the fine-grained change set if it's not
        // necessary.
        public NotesHandler() : base($"^/{Constants.NotesRealm}$")
        {
        }

        // The HandleChangeAsync method is called for every observed Realm file 
        // whenever it has changes. It is called with a change event which contains 
        // a version of the Realm from before and after the change, as well as
        // collections of all objects which were added, deleted, or modified in this change
        public override async Task HandleChangeAsync(IChangeDetails details)
        {
            if (details.Changes.TryGetValue("Note", out var changeSetDetails) &&
                            changeSetDetails.Insertions.Length > 0)
            {
                try
                {
                    var notes = changeSetDetails.Insertions
                                                  .Select(i => i.CurrentObject)
                                                  .Select(o => (string)(o.Title + Environment.NewLine + o.Description))
                                                  .ToArray();

                    if (notes.Length == 0)
                    {
                        return;
                    }

                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                    Console.WriteLine(ex.StackTrace);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
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we have the same problem on Windows .Net Core 3.1

Same issue here on Mac with .Net Core 3.1 and the 4.2.0 SDK.