I have two Taurus handguns (PT58SS and PT92AF) and both work flawlessly. Perhaps I have been lucky. I wonder if an experience I had with a car explains some of the comments you see about Tauruses.
I seem to have been the only human being that ever had a bad Honda car. I bought an Accord brand new. Meticulously maintained it, frequent oil and filter changes, all recommended maintenance. It seemed that every component on that car broke before I got rid of it at 55,000 miles (alternator, air conditioner, water pump, power steering, clutch, wheel bearings) - the upholstery was splitting in the back seats from sunlight (I guess). It was AWFUL. And as you can tell, I still talk about how awful it was more than 30 years later, and have never owned another one, and never will. I'll never give them another chance. And because Acura is owned by Honda, them either.
I have owned a couple of hundred firearms and can count on a couple of fingers, the ones that didn't work due to poor manufacturing practices or design. That may be because most of mine are older (I mostly collect pre-WW2 revolvers) and the quality was so high in those days.
If I had bought a new pistol or revolver and it was flawed, I'd have a hard time buying another.