iOS 8 is more stable than any of the first betas I've previously experienced.
I'm surprised that anyone is really complaining; iOS betas are really only for development and testing, you should expect instabilities as Apple knock the bugs out of their new APIs and work on optimising their operating system (Apple even explain this on the developer download site). I'd go so far as to say that the iOS betas are probably largely running code that has been compiled with the debug switch turned on; if you are a software developer you'll appreciate that this will have impacts on performance and stability. This operating system is not intended for day to day use, that said, it does get frustrating when trying to bench test an application on real hardware and the thing doesn't do what it's supposed to... But then again thats something I'd worry about if the operating system persistently had a problem days before official release... But we're not quite there yet are we (maybe in 8-10 weeks time - i'd be a little more worried if the OS kept crashing)?