Lots of piling on the hate, but I will add my own experience - no problems here with 2018 15” MacBook Pro at work. No keys have broken, though I know that is common, glad they’ve fixed it. Never kernel panicked, though my old 2012 MacBook Air used to occasionally, that’s still the only time I’ve seen the Apple gray screen of death. Doesn’t run particularly louder or hotter than I’d expect, if the fans are blasting it’s generally because the cpu is actually being maxed out, sometimes because I’m compiling something and sometimes because I’ve clicked a link to an average news article in chrome, but that’s a different problem and not the hardware's fault.
Overall, for me there's been no big dramatic declines from the laptops of yore in terms of day to day productivity and reliability.
Overall, for me there's been no big dramatic declines from the laptops of yore in terms of day to day productivity and reliability.