ASUS - ZenTalk

The official build should be released in 2-3 weeks, as around this time, Android Oreo was released, last year.

I think they meant security updates. There might be more betas in the future.

The equalizer is applied system-wide, I forgot to mention that. So, I cannot get around that with a third party app.

I had the same issue. But I installed Nova Launcher, set it as the default launcher and it didn't crash. But, a pretty big problem I have, now, is the horrid equalizer applied by default (seems to be something like Rock preset). Play Music doesn't ha...

You can't change that setting anymore, it's been broken since the original 8.1.0 update. You can still change it by using ADB (https://www.asus.com/zentalk/thread-183485-1-1.html), but it requires a PC.