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I think so.
I've heard so many horror stories about upgrades to it. So I held back on getting a Mac until they shipped with it and also had fixed the keyboard (lots of horror stories there too).
I thought the clean install on new hardware would mean I wouldn't encounter any issues. I was wrong.
This is the first Mac I've ever bought for myself... and I don't think what I've experienced is indicative of Mac reputation, but I've convinced myself this bug is real and the root cause is the OS not the hardware. That's not so bad, they can fix software easily.
Fair assessment.
There's probably a rule of thumb of not spending more than 10% of the value of the computer on a USB hub.
And I don't know if it is Catalina specific... but all of the mentions did appear to be last 6 months which would imply it might be Catalina only.