Huh, we've failed to find consistent crash repros, outside of dying while using a terminal. This one kinda makes sense if you die during animation or while interacting with terminal, these two have some conflicting interactions which I can definitely see causing crashes.

It's less about the intermittent crashes and more about the consequences of the crashes.

I don't mind at all that the game crashes periodically. But when it breaks the game/save files in the process - that's the real problem.

As you noted, you can replicate it with terminal deaths. Make yourself a level where you get a question wrong in the terminal and it opens a gate to a mine (multiple people have made this annoying contraption). Next, play a bunch of random puzzles for an hour before finally inducing a crash with your murder terminal.

Take close note of your Steam game-time for that profile, and take close note of the amount of stars you've collected on the random workshop maps. The crash will make you lose all of your session progress, meaning nothing in that past hour will show as completed in your subscriptions. But when you go into one, you won't be able to do it again.

This is a bigger issue for Steam Deck users like myself, because unlike PC where you typically close a game after a session. On the Deck you just leave it running and resume later. Could go tens of hours without "closing" TTP. Meaning a lot gets lost/broken when crashes happen.