Maybe coincidentally after the 10 minutes YouTube changed something? Once or twice NewPipe stopped working for me suddenly but an update helped. BTW F-Droid gets updates of NewPipe a bit later than GitHub it seems.
Interestingly it's been working perfectly for me with no issues for almost 1 year. A bit surprised to learn that it is not stable for a bunch of people.
Well I think it's just a matter of lag between bugfix and updates on my side. Which means from time to time I get a guru error. Other than that it's quite stable.