Does Thunderbolt anything work properly?

In the past few years I have used five brand new MacBooks (all different models and years, work and personal), four monitors, three Thunderbolt docks - everything new and name brand, including $80 name brand cables - and every single combination has crashed and/or required reboots daily, constant power cycling of monitors, etc etc.

When it all works, it's awesome.

But it's unbelievably flaky and annoying, and I can't understand why the bugs haven't been ironed out yet. However, even with a daily reboot it's still more convenient than plugging five cables into my laptop every time I want to dock it.

Edit: I should note that Big Sur is very stable, requiring only weekly-ish reboots.

Caldigit TS3 dock has been reliable and almost bug free for me. Everyone at the large organization I work for also attests the same.

When I use the TS3+ dock, MacOS tends to reverse the positions of my monitors around 20% of the time I wake up from sleep