My guess is, not really, though the perception persists for a couple main reasons:
(1) For a certain subset of people, the last release really was worse than ever before. New releases have new bugs, and those bugs will affect a certain subset of people that isn't necessarily the same as the bug from the last release. Those people complain (justifiably, I think) though of course people don't create a lot of posts to describe the problems they aren't having.
(2) We all naturally forget about the annoyances of years past while focusing on the current annoyances. (Generally, that is.)
But is each release actually worse than the last?
My guess is, not really, though the perception persists for a couple main reasons:
(1) For a certain subset of people, the last release really was worse than ever before. New releases have new bugs, and those bugs will affect a certain subset of people that isn't necessarily the same as the bug from the last release. Those people complain (justifiably, I think) though of course people don't create a lot of posts to describe the problems they aren't having.
(2) We all naturally forget about the annoyances of years past while focusing on the current annoyances. (Generally, that is.)