You must work for some great developers - I’ve never been compensated for beta testing (sometimes I’ve gotten the final product for free, mostly it’s a courtesy in exchange for some desired feature).
Early releases of anything are a crap shoot, so I generally wade in. To be honest I’ve found initial releases of WL since 7 to be more stable than competing cross platform products, but I think that’s coincidentally related to being on a relatively new mac with current OSX (mac hardware’s all Apple, no 3rd party intermediaries etc). There are a lot of rigs out there, with subtle but critical differences making it impossible to stomp all issues in beta. Only release reveals them, where the diversity of users smokes out problems. Plug-ins in particular are a problem. I too get frustrated when VST plugs that work in Cubase and Nuendo don’t work in WL; that’s a drag for sure.