It shouldn’t be necessary to upgrade to an OS that’s only a few days old, as the iOS version was primarily tested on iOS 16 and 17. I usually wait a while before updating if I can, a few months, for Apple to work out all the launch day bugs.
As for the crash on load, we fixed a bug that would cause that to happen, but maybe we missed something, or the fix conflicted with your setup. I’d follow the advice given in this post just on the off-chance it is related.