First of all: thanks for replying. I appreciate taking the time to come to reddit and reading through people's complaints.
I've been following the Steam discussions and it is true some of the crashes seem to be fixed, but not completely eliminated for what I can gather. It also scares me to put the SD over this level of stress to the point it randomly crashes.
I have no doubt these issues will be fixed with time, but what I can't agree with is the current verified tag. I've never played a verified game on SD with this level of issues, or where the recommendation is to tune down the resolution below the recommended profile.
Again, no doubt you guys will get there. Its just this first impression really left a very bad taste on my mouth.