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Based on reading the general discussions throughout MobileRead.
Kobo fixes bugs and adds new ones.
Kobos have more reports of freezing than Kindles.
I laugh every time I hear the advice to "logout and back in so the database can regenerate itself" -- to my knowledge that has never been necessary for a Kindle. Restore to Factory Defaults is occasionally suggested, for exotic problems; whereas a Kobo can corrupt its database sitting on the table, you have to really work at it to bork the Kindle's database.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that "nobody should buy a Kobo because it is horribly buggy" -- I don't know how buggy it is and how much that impacts the average user, but it certainly seems to be higher than normal.
Nearly everyone who has had weird freezing or bugginess on a Kindle has done something seriously inadvisable with a hack. Kobo users who don't mess around at all will still develop problems.
One stupid thing the Kindle does -- when a battery is aging, a situation can develop whereby a firmware update tries to flash itself and dies in the middle, ruining the flash chip and irreparably bricking the Kindle. But it is pretty rare.
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