1.) Yes, it is literally true. I'm not speaking figuratively or exaggerating for effect. Roughly half of the time that I try to take a picture, my phone restarts. If we want to be a smartass and get hyper literal about it, it might be 45.23/54.77 instead of an even 50/50. But you get the point.
2.) Edge is still a horrible mess. Tabs frequently go unresponsive, copying and pasting often does not work, trying to fill out a form with a radio button is frustrating when you accidentally highlight and can't get the selection to disappear in order to click on the button, filling out forms or text fields doesn't work reliably, I sometimes have to click back and forth between the current tab and the tab view just to get the current tab to respond to clicks, .pdfs reload and cause me to lose my place every time I switch away for a nanosecond to use Excel or Wolfram, text from simple frames often spills over into the rest of the page, drop-down boxes don't work well, etc. And that's not even an exhaustive list.
I get it, I get it. It's still a work in progress. But the reason I'm frustrated is because I feel like MS is spending an inordinate amount of time working on trivial stuff when they don't have the fundamentals squared away. The browser is the biggest one. If they're not going to even try to fix it, then at least give us back the option to use IE. IE wasn't perfect either, but it worked very well for me most of the time, and its foibles were fewer and less annoying than Edge's. I understand why it made sense to build a whole new browser for PC, but I don't understand why they restarted from scratch on mobile.