So far the official blue text from support only touched on the freezing issue, narrowed it down to a speculated i3 problem and also changed the title of this thread to that specific problem.
Like many have said the ‘force closing after a few min’ issue was not openly acknowledged.
For the crashing / force closing issue, again please reply to this post to help and for more focused attention. This popular thread has too much complaining, re-clarification, questioning, chaos and uproar.