Ati Drivers slipping ?

[mactronix]

Firstly this is NOT a thread about how good or bad ATI drivers are compared to Nvidia. So please stick to the question
So...
Anyone else think that maybe ATI are spending to much time concentrating on performance and not enough on overall functioning/stability ?
It could just be me but it seems that there are more and more issues creeping in, to the point where im treating the GPU like a motherboard and really dont want to update the drivers unless there is a really must have feature added.
Going back all through the 8 and 9 series drivers there seemed to be less reporting of buggy drivers and there wasnt a driver i wouldnt use or had to roll back.
Is this just me being lucky ?

Mactronix

 

[wa1]

Just move from 9.7 to 10.8 yesterday...
All games are good, nothing's changed, i mean seems like no increase or reduce in term of performance, clock speed or temps, they are all the same like before...