Is Elements a 'lite' version of Photoshop?

Hi,

I use Photoshop CC every day, and pretty much every day it crashes.  It steals all the menory and has particular issues when I have multiple Chrome windows open (which I need).  Yes, I've talked to tech support and have re-installed it completely twice, adjusted many settings, added scratch disks, and still no change, so not going to waste any more time on that.  I have a Core i7 PC with 16Gb of memory and a  mid-level graphics card.  No other software on my PC behaves like Photoshop, including Adobe After Effects which uses MUCH bigger files...

But most of the time I use PS for simple tasks like croppping, correcting or re-sizing images/graphics, so I've started to use Affinity Photo instead which seems to be a cheap lightweight alternative - but it doesn't have the same command structure (although some are the same) so it slows me down.

If Elements has the same basic menu/command structure it would make a good lightweight alternative, so I'd only have to use PS when I need it's more powerful features - does anyone know if that would work?

Thanks.