My comment starts with "this is what I have observed..." Please don't put your words in my mouth. I feel all my responses on this thread are respectful, civil, and not threatening. 

This is not new, and I am not the first to complain about it, and this is not the first time I have had to deal with it. 

The point is for PS to correct the application to tolerate bad assets in the watch folders. Now, when it crashes directly after startup, turning off watch folders is problematic. And even if you could, you don't know which asset file is causing the problem.