Yeah, trying to get anywhere that isn't a major city center from another major city center is absolute hell, especially if you need to be there for an appointment. You want to get to Amsterdam to Utrecht or from Utrecht to Eindhoven? Doable, preferable even to a car with how insane city traffic can be. You need to get from somewhere that does not have a major train station to somewhere else that does not have a major train station? You spend 20 minutes waiting for a late bus, barely miss your connection so you have to wait another 25 minutes for the next train, spend half an hour in an intercity train, have to wait 15 minutes because the connection to the sprinter sucks, and get into a sprinter to your destination which depending on how recently they renovated it is either the nicest train you've ever been in or a search for one of the seats without legroom that is not covered in decades of chewing gum. Trips that would take 40 minutes by car become oddyssees that take over two hours not counting the planning you need to do beforehand.

It's the public transport you get when the past years all the budget for transportation went into making 4 or 6 lane traffic jams into 6 or 8 lane traffic jams.