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Maybe this will help clear things up, check the bottom line...
Seems the Dev Beta and the Public Beta share the same release number, just one version apart.

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The Public Beta is not "a 'more' stable version of High Sierra", it's just the same as the Developer Beta, only released a day later and, sometimes, every 2 dev betas.
 
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My last 2 betas were also labelled as 'developer' betas. I am also not a developer.

A Public Beta will almost never be 'more stable' than a developer version.
 
The Public Beta is the same as the Developer Beta in terms of additions, bug fixes, release number etc... however the Public Beta is released a day or 2 after the developer beta
The Public Beta is not "more stable" or "less risky" than the developer beta
 
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