Opinions are purely subjective
What it really breaks down to is that people don't read.
That is a huge problem in today's society.
Spoon-feeding is the norm - not bad to a certain extent, read it, learn it, live it.
Another problem is people don't understand or search what is to be removed or installed, what the dependencies are, etc .., they just press "Y" or use even worse synaptic (usually ex ubuntu users)
Most, if not, all the dist-upgrade problems can be avoided by using the forum or irc.
Sometimes it's debian, sometimes it pebac
I just didn't like the authoritative position on acting superior on the first post in this forum, but, then again, that's what opinions are for
From mandrake to woody, knoppix, kanotix, sidux, aptosid, siduction same problems, actually look at arch, gentoo forums, it's all the same there, but, like I said opinions are just that, and I actually find this very funny but any distro has the same problem.