Agreed. However I never have driven any modern Maser or any other high performance car worried, concerned or expecting it to break. Most modern cars are generally pretty strong. Mainly core mechanicals such as engines, gearboxes,.diffs etc.are all pretty robust.
Try owning a TVR.....that is the only car I drive and expect at.some point something will break or fail or not work. Mainly as TVR's were not honed and developed with lavish budgets at design/manufacturing stages to anywhere the levels of mainstream manufacturers, Maserati included.
Most modern stuff in the main is pretty good. Many of these cars were £75k-£100k and beyond for good reason. There weren't expensive for no reason. So many of these cars have bad press because of lazy journalism, pub talk, opinion and otherwise. Often with little true numbers, facts or stats to backup or warrant these claims.
I tend to stay away from cars that do have too many known or weak areas. I would love another E60 M5 or maybe an E63 M6 but I have stayed away as the downsides seem a little too great to the upsides compared to other alternatives.
Is the SMG box or DS or CC box so bad? No, not IMHO. People have short memories on how bad cars used to be. Or get too caught up in wanting a 'perfect' car. To me a perfect car is boring, characterless and less engaging to drive or own because if it. Ironically it's this perfection that is the the very thing that makes it fail to be perfect as a car to drive and own. On the flip side a car that is not perfect to me makes it more of a perfect car than a perfect car.
Makes me laugh when all these journos and you tubers hark on about how bad the DS or CC gearbox is. Is it? Is it really? No it isn't. You just need to learn how to drive it. It is a manual not an auto.....get over it. If you get in a conventional three pedal stick shift manual and drive it badly it will surprising not drive very well. Mind blown! It is not the gearboxes fault.....it is the driver.
Any drivers that want a perfect car buy a DCT Audi/BMW or Tesla. For people who want an interesting car to own and drive then we get to dine on a ton of lovely things. In the current climate and due to half the world wanting perfect cars these are now for buttons to our advantage. If I could I would buy more. I could easily have 20 cars. They also likely would still only cost circa £150k for all 20 of them!