Unfortunately I'm just about to give up on elementary because of its bugginess. In my experience, running on well-supported hardware, it has frequent long pauses booting up, serious problems with suspend, failures to install with the new appcenter, and a few other small issues.

I support the theory of elementary (UI/designer led, unified HIGs, encouraging payment for development of the OS and the general ecosystem, and the emphasis on polished, hassle-free computing) but in practice it's just not there. They need to sort out bugs before taking on new features/designs.

I'm actually just considering what distribution to recommend to an inexperienced user. I would recommend elementary in a heartbeat if serious bugs were fixed within weeks, instead they go on for years.