#iPadOS 17 pb3: has been VERY crashy. Just lost an email with a proposal I was drafting. Lesson learned. Composing emails in Drafts.app, at least until things are a bit more stable. Haven’t yet updated to 17 pb4 because I hear there are some issues with widgets— is that so?
@jsamlarose I’ve been finding that the most recent beta is more stable than previous. Any widget issues I have had have been minor, but continue. Widget issues are different across devices.
One of the most notable improvements I have seen in the last beta is more stability when entering text previous beta. My iPad crashed constantly trying to enter text in almost any app. With the newest beta I haven’t had any text entry crashes that I can recall.
All that said, it seems like the betas are different for everyone. I’ll read of people having issues with particular bugs that haven’t been an issue for me at all. So I don’t give too much weight to anecdotal reporting (good or bad) on beta cycles. 
@Denny fair point about the differences. I’ve ended up on dev beta 7; I was going to update to the most recent public data, but the beta options disappeared from my software update settings screen. Fixed that by downloading a configuration profile (the way we used to do it up to 16.4 or thereabouts). Turns out the profile I selected was the dev beta track, and here I am. Less crashy thus far. A few widget issues, but nothing show-stopping. So far, so good… (touch wood)