After effects crashes

First of all, thanks for making my experience smoother by not allowing my usual account, linked to my Adobe subscription, to search the forum anymore. That’s been incredibly helpful.

Since the last After Effects update, when it crashes, the entire screen turns black, forcing me to restart my computer. With the previous version, at least I could click through countless "OK" pop-ups—each triggered by After Effects trying to handle one of its nullptrs—and salvage my work, even though it would crash every 5 minutes without any clear reason. Now, instead of just dealing with frequent crashes, the entire system goes down. I guess we’re making progress?

Any plans on frying my graphics card soon? Because at this point, the carelessness is pretty evident, so why not take it a step further? And before the usual “It’s your hardware/setup” deflection, I’ve got several other resource-intensive programs installed, all of which run just fine. The only ones consistently crashing are Adobe products.

Now I'm stuck paying a premium for software that’s coded poorly, making it impossible to get through a day of work without crashes that could cost me a lot of money every time I launch After Effects. And, to top it off, there are barely any viable alternatives.

Is there anything I can do to stop After Effects from crashing every 5 minutes, even on an empty timeline? Anything at all?