I'd say AMD still has worse software than Nvidia too, even before GPGPU/CUDA. About a year ago, I swapped a 1080TI with a friend's 5700XT because he was having crashing issues with games. I use it fine now with Linux drivers, so I doubt it was a hardware issue.

AMD drivers exist in this weird state of tautological pseudo-goodness where they're good as long as you ignore all the times they aren't. And if you point it out, people dig in with the "well I've never had a problem in 15 years now" and "go look at NVIDIA's tech support forum, they have bugs too".

NVIDIA has not had a sustained generational instability problem like 5700XT or Vega drivers in the modern era, and they haven't even had a more short-term shitstorm like RDNA3 launch drivers that lingered for nearly as long. And there have been multiple instances of top-5 e-sports titles being flatly broken on AMD drivers (often resolveable by going back to much older drivers) for prolonged periods of time (quarters/years) that simply don't happen on NVIDIA cards.

But of course there is a low-level stew of problems on both brands constantly. Power-saving with multimonitor is a great example of one that's been perma-broken for 10 years on both brands now. But there is also a high-level stew of Radeon-specific problems that pretty constantly churns and it gets discarded out of hand because "I've never had a problem" like that means 5700XT didn't exist. And it's people who you absolutely know are aware of the 5700XT issues.

Even working from a baseline assumption of intellectual honesty it's a super frustrating discourse overall, and I think in many cases the assumption may be unwarranted.