That's my biggest rub here. Online reviews are skewed for negative experiences because people rarely come out of the woodworks to report positive outcomes. And then, if you look further into the negative reports, 30-40% of the time it's someone doing something completely idiotic or not using the item the way it's supposed to be used. Not to add, when people feel wronged, they tend to exaggerate and you don't get the whole story.
But then again, if there is smoke, there is usually fire.
The thing that muddies that waters is that you can always find smoke with a lot of popular, lauded guns. You can find smoke about modern Glock, Sig, S&W, Beretta, etc. models. I've seen bad reviews about the 43x, 30SF, and Hellcat. All of which I currently have and had I seen the reviews before hand... I probably would have bought them anyway lmao but you get the point.