[glaive123]

Probably because people just complain about Godaddy but don't recommend alternatives and explain why they are trustworthy/better.

Who do you use and why?

[viraptor]

There's a common list of providers mentioned every time on similar articles. Gandi, namecheap, dnssimple, and a few others. + all the usual cloud providers and CloudFlare.

[RealStickman_]

Porkbun is also recommended usually.

[ironmagma]

NearlyFreeSpeech.net is great. They don’t upsell you, there are no ads, whois privacy is easy, and everything just works.

[forty]

I see recommendation very regularly here. I use Gandi.net and they are great, but I also regularly see namecheap being recommended (I never used them though, in my book "cheap" means low quality ^^ I'm French and the English word is often used that way :) )