Hey Gerbick, I do know your viewpoint and its more balanced on both side - which is good.

Having said that - about the hardware faults of the N900 like reboothing etc ...
I bought an initial unit from Nokia USA store - no issues -
1) Mic worked fine
2) No Reboots
3) Calibration all correct
4) Battery life on par (as mentioned before)
5) Camera is good - not the best (as my N95)
and so on and so forth.
6) No dead pixels

All in all no issues found - of course I wont mention that it misses things which have been mentioned before in software (like MMS, portrait support etc).

Next I got an unit from Amazon (preorered) and I was worried about it - but even this unit functions same as the Nokia US store unit. No hardware issues.

I think on the first batch might have had some issues but subsequent batches are fine.
If that is your concern I think you can rest easy.
Of course you have been on these forums a long time to know the pros and cons of Maemo 5.

Edit : the keyboard (layout wise) takes some time getting used to - but once you overcome that hurdle - it is fast and nice to use.
And I am coming to the N900 from the N810 - and so far I have not gone back to the N810 inspite of the smaller screen which you don't feel much about after some time.

Only time I use the N810 is to listen to music from the external speakers as the speakers on the N800 / N810 is definitely better than the N900.