Welcome to the forum, wetab73.
For another perspective see: Thank you thread. Coming from a Jolla 1, I disagree that v4 is less mature. And I also disagree about what you said regarding Android. It’s your choice of course, but a stock Android is privacy invasive and the Android emulator is not (for me a very big difference).
Hopefully you can solve the issues. With C++/QML knowledge I don’t think you’ll find a better device than sailfish right now. I don’t like/agree with your (emotional) title but “dreadful” might give a hint why Jolla doesn’t want to cater to normal novice users, which, imo, are better served by Apple and Google (and the consequence that brings, you know as well as I… 
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