Is Tiger Crufty?

I think so, even though I don't know what the word means, and so, it would seem, does the Tao of Mac, who asks in a recent post: "Is Mac OS X Becoming Crufty?" Signs point to yes, and he seems to be encountering the same stubborn monocular responses to his complaints about Tiger that I've faced here. I like that his post now begins with the disclaimer: "Update: Please check the follow-up article before posting more comments along the lines of 'but a clean install always works', etc."

Both posts are must reads, I think, because they point to a real problem with the current state of Tiger troubleshooting. There are several bugs carefully delineated in his posts that are occurring on different machines but which are not affecting all Tiger users.

That's my main complaint about Tiger. It is buggy, and after a certain point of troubleshooting you just hit a dead end, and the "cure-all solution" that everyone gives (reinstall everything from scratch), doesn't appear to always and in all cases really solve these problems.

I guess that's what crufty means. What do you think?