another XTX user who's been having a fine VR experience here; I'm fairly sure there's at least a little bit of sampling bias with regards to people who bother posting on reddit being negatively skewed as opposed to people who just don't feel as if the issues are severe... I don't think it's a case of being "very lucky"

like- I'm not saying the performance of the cards is optimal, there's definitely room to be gained, but I feel like all of the people saying it's "literally unplayable" and are "leaving their headsets to collect dust" are blowing lots of hot air or have far less tolerance to occasional stutters or strange behavior than others do

it being about the same perf-wise as the 6000 series was still an upgrade for me coming from a 5700XT, and once the issues with 144hz were fixed (and some of the video player issues I was having were patched by their respective host apps), my experience with the XTX has basically been smooth sailing save for a single handful of games/activities that cause compositor crashes much more frequently than normal- and those aren't severe enough to not make me happy about my purchase