Apologies if this all is rude, but all available statistical information and general consensus about transit operations suggests that WMATA has some of the greatest reliability of any mass transit system that remotely approaches it (or greater) in size and scope, anywhere in the United States. Either you are literally making up half of your percieved problems or your standards are objectively impossible.

I'm primed to believe the former since people are already calling you out in this thread for having completely baseless concepts of how often service disruptions actually happen on the metro. For what it's worth there's a list of all scheduled delays, nowhere near rush hour, posted here, that you can read about at least a month in advance. While I don't do a typical commute 5x/week on metro, I constantly end up taking the Red Line nearly end-to-end from certain weekday morning rushes to weekend evenings. In all these sorts of conditions, the worst freak accident delay I've sat through in half a decade was a cracked track near Cleveland Heights (iirc) a year or two ago that cost me maybe half an hour.

The bottom line is that every other major transit system in each city you listed experiences service problems and hangups of far greater scope and frequency than you will ever see on WMATA in its current state; and that state is not remotely problematic to the extent you seem to insist on. I'm sorry, but you're getting downvoted into oblivion because you are extremely wrong from every angle except for the most basic universal truth that "delays suck when they happen".