Premiere Pro hasn't crashed on me in years. Admittedly, I have almost always had a reasonably fast system, with lots of internal drives. My media and cache are on separate RAID0 so the drives are not a bottleneck.
I have a graphics card that is compatible with the CUDA requirements, so I seldom render anymore.
Why are you having trouble? It is a reasonably simple program to use. The more you get into it, the more you need to learn, but the first few steps toward editing video are relatively easy.