After 2.0 the HDD auto feature seemed to have been causing a bug where every car would stop as I got near, but it wasn't crashing. I changed the HDD mode to off and while it fixed the cars stopping bug, now it seems to crash.

Happens to me too and I have 3080

Can't you use VRR on KDE?

Classic Gnome

It came before emojis/a shortcut for them. I would think it's from T9 keyboards. If you wanted any of those types of characters, it was a cycle of a single button and : comes before =, so doing : ) was a lot less button presses than = )

Basically the feature is there, but if you are using the F-Droid version, it won't show up in the 3rd party sources area. Here's the issue on GitHub: https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15400