You will get no argument from any user the action palette, other palettes and menu needs to be re-implemented in a way they can be better organised for better access. Scrolling menu list a line at a time is ridicules if you have hundreds of items and you can not even create sub-list. You can not nest actions sets etc. etc Photoshop's UI diffidently needs work. We do not need more panels we need panels that can easily be organized the way want to fit in with our work-flows.
The only crash I have had in CC 2014 was cause by expanding many action so I could read the step setting. The Action Palette became non operational. However I could close down Photoshop. But when I started CC 2014 up again the Actions Palette displayed empty and CC 2014 crashed,
I just tried the updated CC 2014.1 problem still there. This time I did not close down Photoshop I tried to open a new document That cause Photoshop to hang. I had to use the task manager to terminate CC 2014. When I started CC 2014.1 the Actions Palette use still intact and not expanded. I did not have to recover
"C:\Users\John J McAssey\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014\Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 Settings\Actions Palette.psp" from backup like I had to when I shut down Photoshop.