I would say the people running the project have been arrogant as of late, but unfortunately that's unrelated to the software itself. When I bring this up to people all I get is the usual "older hardware" argument.
My main reason for switching distros was that the Arc A750 I have for AV1 transcoding had drivers in testing but ZFS at the time required stable. Debian was too much of a mess for me to deal with. NFS being fixed was a happy accident that was a result from all the above.