The crashes seem be getting smaller and more frequent
I think that's just you noticing smaller blips in the market as you pay more attention. Markets are random walks so they exhibit a fairly fixed distribution of different sized crashes. If they deviated, someone could notice that pattern and trade on it, returning the market back to a random walk.
Which would be progress.
A small sell-off is just business as usual.
When does it give birth to a new market?