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I've bought 3 Sages. Wife and granddaughter got the 3rd and 2nd.
Once I learned to flip sleep cover closed if distracted or pausing reading I had no issue with button response.
No complaints. Wife had Kindle PW3, then Kobo Libra Original. Granddaughter first had a Fire.
So I think the issues are: wrong firmware (4.32 seems best right now), people pressing at end instead of middle, the Original Libra needs pressed at outer ends, and staring at the page too long without reading & turning pages.
The "timeout" doesn't seem consistent and the Sage can "sleep" without putting up the sleep cover page, i.e. leaving the book page shown. Also has an intermediate sleep mode timeout where touch still works. You don't notice this unless you use the Sage with no physical sleep cover. All three Sages have KWmobile covers.
With a suitable charger the recharge time is about x2 to x4 faster than other ereaders. I gave the Wife a 3m USB-A to USB-C cable so if she forgets to charge she can read in bed or on couch all night, but charger hardly needs connected for more than a chapter or two to give enough for an entire book.
I think battery, button and handwriting issues are massively overstated, especially on 4.32.x SW. There are other bugs and lacking features, though I understand why some things I'd like simply don't exist on Sage or Elipsa, and in some cases on any Kobo.
I have a PW3, Gen9 Oasis 32G+3G and a Likebook Mars (7.8" Android). The Libra Original and Sage are massively better. My Elipsa makes the reMarkable I have look like junk FW (no MTP or Mass Storage, no Handwriting conversion, no text annotation on ebooks).
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