I think the v.2 crashes are related to completing events, not AI teleport, which I have fixed for upcoming version (v.3). For the quest you are talking about that sounds right. The "food" bonus is actually quite substantial, especially later in the game, because it completely fills all food boxes.
Note that while playing any mod its a good idea to turn autosave to every turn. Many times you can simply reload from a turn or two back and bypass a crash.
I have banned Autosaves for a long time..
The description of awards is somewhat... disleading. I was thinking it giving ~400 foods divided among all cities, not the real effect it should be.A clearer text is needed.
And the new Schools of Magic system is really an astonding work, while I feel that bonuses for domestic development are not enough now. There are still two vacant policy tree slot, Would you like merging some domestic,or just not so magical bouns into that? (My suggestion is to call them Fire and Sword, one for ecomonic bonus while another for bonuses to secular legions)
About the new religion(cult of gods) system, First you should see that once I summon a Cleric and build temple for the specified religion, the religion itself becomes completely useless.Confining it in my border is much better than spreading out anyway, except for achieving the Religion Victory(which is F**KING HARD because the reason I desrcibed below).
If you want to spread it out, there are only Missionaries, Not inquistors and GPs can't do anything except constructing a holy site....?A Missionary costs as much as 3 times a temple do, and I can't see any point to that unit.
So my suggestion about the religion are:
First, You can try to add some founding belief beyonds a cleric, for example, +1g for every city converted or +0.25 happiness for every citizen converted. this will encourage players and AIs to spread their religions, not letting it alone.
Second, why not re-activate the Great Prophet? Even a domestic one is better than the current one.
Anyway, I enjoy this mod very much. Thank you for the hard work!