Game crashing due to corrupted chunk

I'm having a discussion with people that have recently had a server issue regarding corrupted chunks. They state that one of the main issues is because we are running the game in 1.14, which they say "chunk rendering changed in 1.13, making it more common."

I personally just believe that chunk errors happen, and changing the version to a 1.12 won't help with chunk rendering.

Am I wrong? Should we change the server to 1.12? 

 

Below is a log of the crash.