Because Apple-bashing is all the rage right now on HN. Even if Apple were to achieve "five nines" glitch-free manufacturing, which is very hard to do, there'd still be problems with 1 in 10,000 units sold. And that's considered excellent quality. I used to work in the hardware space. Software people don't often appreciate you can't simply crank out perfect replicas of a design.
More like <insert anything here>-bashing has been and always will be all the rage on any internet forum? At least to me HN looks quite diverse and I don't have the impression there is a big undeniable bias towards a single platform/tool/... and all seems fair. Which of course might mean in some cases where some product is actually not top notch the 'average' of the comments will be towards the negative side but that is exactly what should happen and the opposite should be true as well.
I don't think I was apple bashing - just the contrary. I have one and think it's great - I develop for Apple products, I said maybe his was broken. A bit confused...
I also suspect faulty hardware in these scenarios. I see far fewer bugs with my fully loaded 2016 MBP 15 than I did on my 3yo MBA.
I'd also be interested to know whether the folks experiencing these bugs imported the apps and settings from their old system. In my experience, it's fairly common to see glitches resulting from corrupt drivers or configuration after setting up a new machine by transferring from an old.
Edit: Why the downvote?