Does Delta/Beta insiders know how the free to play w/o gold feature is working correctly or...

That feature is only available to Alpha,Alpha skip aheads & Beta Insiders at the moment.

As you are in the Delta ring you will still need gold to play any games online.

I think it may be fixed finally. I just downloaded an update on the Beta ring as an Xbox insider and played crash free over multiple turns. This was on a game I've been trying to finish over 2 months now, that was crashing multiple times per turn.

This is in Beta ring. How long does it take to go GA from Beta? I assume it needs to pass Delta and Omega first? Another 3-6 months?

Not all Insiders have access to not requiring gold for f2p games at the moment.Only Alpha/Alpha skip ahead & Beta rings are testing it.If you are not in any of those rings then you will still need a gold sub at the moment.

I have access im in the delta lvl and it talks about us testing it but it will not work on my Xbox and I’m on the current update for delta and I see the I have a Xbox network id

As an Insider, it passed through alpha, beta, delta and omega rings with no issue like this. Due to how few are reporting problems, would point to a hardware fault that coincided with the update.

It is rare that a software update would brick a console. Knowing which models of Xbox are involved would help.

keyboard and mouse is currently a beta feature and may not work correctly