Crash java.lang.Error in MapboxHttpClient.request

Environment

• Android OS version: 7.0, 7.1.1, 8.1.0, 9.0, 11, 12
• Devices affected: Motorola moto e6 play, moto e6s, Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7 (SM-T550) and others
• Maps SDK Version: 11.16.6

Observed behavior and steps to reproduce

We noticed a crash started to happen after we updated the Maps SDK from 11.12.2 to 11.16.6.
We see it in our crash reporting system.
We were not able to reproduce it locally.

Stacktrace:

java.lang.Error: thread constructor failed: Try again
        at com.mapbox.common.SchedulerFactory.createSequenced(SchedulerFactory.java:-2)
        at com.mapbox.common.module.cronet.CronetClientDetail.buildRequestWithEngine(CronetClientDetail.kt:48)
        at com.mapbox.common.module.cronet.CronetClientDetail.buildRequest(CronetClientDetail.kt:33)
        at com.mapbox.common.module.MapboxHttpClient.request(MapboxHttpClient.kt:241)

Threads:

Thread 2 - main - (RUNNABLE)
        at com.mapbox.common.SchedulerFactory.createSequenced(SchedulerFactory.java:-2)
        at com.mapbox.common.module.cronet.CronetClientDetail.buildRequestWithEngine(CronetClientDetail.kt:48)
        at com.mapbox.common.module.cronet.CronetClientDetail.buildRequest(CronetClientDetail.kt:33)
        at com.mapbox.common.module.MapboxHttpClient.request(MapboxHttpClient.kt:241)

Thread null - [67 threads omitted as the maxReportedThreads limit (200) was exceeded] - (UNKNOWN)
        at (-)
...

Expected behavior

Crash shouldn't happen

Notes / preliminary analysis

As we can see from the stacktrace - this issue is related to the tread creation process. Apparently the maximum number of threads is exceeded.
Presumably there has to be the Throwable caught instead of an Exception.

Start with MapboxHttpClient.kt:241 and follow the request path through CronetClientDetail.kt:33 and :48 to SchedulerFactory.createSequenced, using the supplied stack trace as the failure path. Investigate how thread-creation failures are handled and verify that the reported crash no longer occurs under the excessive-thread condition.