> kernel panics are part of life with consumer hardware.
This isn't right. It was certainly true in the nineties, but I haven't seen one in years on Windows and I spend many hours a day in it both for work and play.
DDR5 where yields are pushed with module level ECC? Janky amd gpu drivers, "RGB" controller drivers misbehaving, some hardware that is just as bad as it was in the 90's since they all use driver sourcecode copied from the 90s.