I guess that's partly about how and where you look.

When people complain about the bluetooth being glitchy, I see a bug filed for that.

When people complain about the phone functionality being thin, I see a brainstorm on improving it.

When people complain about the music player, I see several alternate music players under development.

And when people complain about missing emulators I see requests for patience while the lawyers sort it out and files hosted somewhere other than maemo.org.

I could post links for all of these but I'm duvet surfing on n900 and it's too fiddly.

I think it comes down to whether your ear is tuned for noise or signal.