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I wouldn’t call myself an “avid” user but I have been using it for about 6 years.
My pain points would be the current driver support on new laptops. Nothing they can do but it’s always been a pain in the ass to encounter some broken ACPI kernel implementation that for example doesn’t call a required Microsoft Modern Standby extension or fails to bring a computer out of suspend.
My other issue isn’t really an issue, but installers need to have you enter all information and then just walk away. None of “do you want to participate in the package survey” after a super lengthy download. Debian is the worst of these offenders and I can’t believe no one on their team has ever tried to fix it in the years it has been around.
Bought a used Surface Laptop and didn't think about it being weird proprietary hardware. Just figured it was a good price. Bought AMD because fuck Intel. Well, it turns out you have to run a surface-laptop custom kernel, a big pain to get going for a normie like me, and even then, because I bought the AMD one, my biometrics and touch screen are completely unusable. It's like the one SKU that it's just a bust on and since this is all volunteer maintained, it's likely they've given up on fixing that on this obscure, years old model of laptop.