Adjusting render distance crashes game

How to reproduce: launch a world in 21w37a, adjust render distance from right to left side after giving it a chance to load some of the chunks

• Crash 1: is from adjusting render distance from 32 to 14 upon creating a new world.
• Crash 2: is from adjusting render distance from 
• Crash 3: I did not record, but was from adjusting render distance as well
• Crash 4: is from adjusting render distance from 32 to 17 (setting it to 20 from 32 didn't crash immediately, however it did suffer slowdown)
• Crash 5: (attached video) is from adjusting render distance from 27 to 5 chunks
• Crash 6: increasing from low to high did not crash, but going back did
• Crash 7: created new survival world, was able to adjust render distance freely with no crash until it crashed out of the blue on one adjust