In Labels I'm using "Allow HTML Formatting" to add image/icon before item's name. AFAIK for labels with icon this is the best way to do automatic placement, in order to get clean placement (icon + ...
What is the bug or the crash? In QGIS 3.44.2, when opening the attribute table of a layer, the window seems to really want to be docked at the bottom of the screen, in spite of the previous any ...