If your experience was normative, then why were the gamer boards alive with bile about Microsoft dragging their feet to the point that an underground infrastructure of tips and tricks on fixing the problem yourself erupted. Some of the problem was with inadequate cooling, so fan mods were offered. But most of the problems were with faulty chips on the motherboards that MS admitted to by changing their MB design and suppliers. How a company that big could release an untested unit is a scandal. But, hey, they do it with their operating systems, must be part of their corporate culture to commandeer a market to the point that a 10%-20% failure rate is just “collateral damage”. If they were selling medical equipment, they’d be dead.
BTW, as regards the “illegality” of pirating XBox games- Microsoft sets the moral standard, I’m perfectly willing to treat them to their own ethical baseline.