Not sure for what reason, but mine has gone back to running rock solid.
1) I let my machine update all WIN10 updates. (back on auto updates.)
2) I am on latest Sonar Plat version
3) I renamed my audio.ini. (I did some nonsense a while ago to balance out my 8 cores. I am back to hitting core 1 hard, but there is no impact to performance that I can tell.)
4) I shut down just about all background apps.
5) Disabled auto-save. (cannot say for sure, but a lot of my crashes seemed to happen when I was editing and auto-save jumped in)
I had a friend over on Saturday recorded 6 hours straight without a hiccup.
I am not too worried about End Of Life for the Octa. My son is still happily using my old firepod ! They don't stop working when they go end of life.
JR