@brainblasted I did a review of elementaryOS on my twitch/youtube that might shed some light on this, I also did an episode on Linux After Dark talking about this. While I will admit these are based on contrived examples, but might be useful nonetheless. An example of an issue with current state of things is here, for example: bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=8796
I think the main problem right now re: users reporting issues is that a lot of the issues stem from non-user-facing internals, i.e. Wayland, pipewire etc.
And they are being fixed, but whereas Wayland has been around for a minute, here's this project's progress in 2024: blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/1