It could be something else, if we have no idea what causes it, it could also be something that is correlated with the dock, not the dock itself. But its your experience, not mine, I shouldn't question it.

IDK. computers are always full of shit and broken IMO. Usually if my computer is crashing all the time, reinstalling the OS from scratch provides relief. I do that usually every 6 - 24 months.

I will say I had a similar unbearable crash-tastic experience with the laptop dock and the firmware updates did make it better. Especially the one that was only install-able from windows. Of course YMMV