AMD had poor drivers because they were inexperienced

Nvidia has poor drivers because they're shoving AI in all their holes

That's binary blob drivers for you, you just try different versions and hope it gets better someday.

One of the big advantages to open source drivers is that you can do a bisect to track some new breakage back to a specific patch. Sure, most people don't know how to do that, but there's a lot of people who can. And then the problem gets fixed for everybody.