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I used to see a lot format-related reviews on new-release ebooks (regardless of publisher) a few years back. It was quite popular for while. Seems to have died down a lot now that ebooks a) are more established; and b) seem to have their own production processes (as opposed to merely being slap-dash OCR offspring of their print cousins). They're (ebooks) no longer an afterthought for new-release books.
Back-list is a different story, and is still pretty hit or miss for me, format-wise (which is where I see most of the review complaints about formatting nowadays). I don't really expect that scene to improve much (unless the authors themselves are alive and take a vested interest in their own backlist e-catalog).
I can only think of three times that I formally complained about ebook formatting: once to Amazon for a refund, and twice I sent the author an email. One of the authors gave me an email address at his publishing house to send the details to ... the other passed on the details to his publisher himself. Both thanked me and gave me DRM-free copies whenever corrected versions were available (and no, they weren't self-published authors).
I reserve my official complaints for what I deem to be errors in formatting and not merely personal preferences. They have to be pretty atrocious problems to trip me up. I've got shelves full of old paper-packs to remind that there never really was a formatting "standard" (in quality or practice) in book publishing.
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