If I was in your position I may want to reinstall Photoshop 2023 and its plugins.I'd say my frequency of crashes is higher than I remember it being on my old 2013 MBP, but again, this is anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt. I find that if I've been editing a lot and then come to a pretty big file, the odds of a crash go up a fair bit. I'm pretty sure it's just running out of memory and needs a restart. I've had notices that I'm out of memory and need to close things several times, and other times I get no notice and it just freezes up. I've had this happen at least 5 times in a two week period where I was editing a lot. Again, for all I know, I may have a setting switched over in PS 2023 which is letting it run of runway or building up the cache way too much.
Another common problem has been sometimes photoshop doesn't like the dedicated graphics processor settings - I open an image and there's nothing in there - like photoshop thinks its open, but there is no image, no nothing. I end up having to turn off the "use dedicated graphics processor" setting under performance, closing the file, reopening (which seems to bring back the image but hamper performance by a fair bit), and then changing the setting to turn the graphics processor back on, and then reopening again. After that, it almost always works like new again.
Both are nuances which are annoying, but not deal breakers. The performance of the machine when it's working well far outweigh these issues.
BTW I envy you for holding out from 2013 for any Apple Silicon Mac. That's one thing I wish I did with my 2011 MBP 13" 32nm to your 2021 MBP 16" M1 Pro 5nm!
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