basic settings being buried deep in the menus is definitely a thing ✅

Nah, there is:

1. A special hotkey that allows you to find and execute virtually any command. Same in vscode with ctrl+shift+p.
2. Text-based search in the settings dialog.

So even though things are buried somewhere deep, it's easy to find them.

freezing at critical moments can occasionally be a thing ✅

Sounds like a ~~skill~~ hardware issue tbh.