It's gotten especially worse since the text selection changes landed in Android 2.3 for me.
Can you expand on that bit?
Whilst I haven't got any objective proof, I think I would say that I've had more crashes since 2.3.4 got installed, compared to whatever I had on it when I first got it (either 2.3.1 or 2.3.2).
But I'm unsure if you're referring to the 2.3.4 upgrade, or the change from 2.2 to 2.3.