[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BarryH_GEG:
"This much traffic" is relative. Have you ever owned a device with a truly pervasive issue? I've owned two and know of three. I'm not counting the GPS issue on the i9000/SGS1 because it's ancient history by now but I'm sure people here that were affected remember what those forums looked like.

The One X Wi-FI issue that was caused by a design/manufacturing flaw probably affected about 1/3 of the phones shipped. It's a pure WAG on my part but it's no lower than that and could be higher. At 30 days the thread discussing it was at 172 pages. At 60 it was up to 240. It's at 367 now.

The G2X was different because 100% of phones were affected but the problem showed itself in different ways. There were random reboots, erratic wireless behavior, overheating, and battery charging funkiness all related to the same design flaw. So rather than a pile on in a single thread there were about five main threads discussing the various symptoms. Page count wise, considering it was a U.S. T-Mobile phone only, it was probably consistent with the One X's page/post accumulation adjusted for quantity shipped. It was a hateful phone that got the hateful forum it deserved. Here was the final conclusion as found by an MIT grad in a lab in case anyone cares.

So inside the phone right next to the 4 connecting diodes that connect the battery to the cellphone unit are 2 semis [semiconductor hubs] that are responsible for providing battery charge information to the cellphones cpu [central processing unit] in addition theres also a line running to those semis that probably carries some sort of information [current] that the semis are also responsible for.

The first approach that we took was through the hardware, and killed that additional line and allowed the semis to only be responsible for the battery charge. The results were somewhat positive. Although the phone would freeze and glitch like crazy it would not shutdown with a subsequent necessity of pulling the battery.We also noticed that it was the two semis that would get hot actually and lockup shutting the phone up and requiring a battery pull. The reason you need to pull the battery is because the iodes would overheat and completely glitch out, also even though the phone was now powered off there still was a current running between the battery and the phone. Only the battery pull would allow the diodes to drop the charge and reset to the position for the phone to be functional again and able to power up​

The Asus Prime TF201 was a wireless disaster because of its sold metal back cover. The lack of GPS signal was the center point of everyone's anger and it affected 100% of devices built. In 30 days the thread was at 85 pages. It was at 126 three weeks later and got locked because of personal attacks. And tablets, especially in 2011, sold in far smaller volumes than the phones mentioned above. Asus eventually admitted the problem and started shipping a plug in dongle to all Prime owners so the comments dissipated. The other major threads on BT and Wi-Fi performance ended up being pretty close in numbers and ended up being 200+ pages in 90 days.

So, that's what devices with pervasive problems look like. And the front pages are a hostile mess because pissed off owners start new threads because they think their take on whatever the major issue is means more than everyone else’s. And those issues

never

leave the front page. So rarely will you see a "happy" front page on a phone with endemic problems. That's why I don't think the One's camera lens or the SGS4's cracked AMOLEDs are that big a deal (yet).