Haha. No, as you say, "whataboutism" about it. Both teams have had bad drivers. I love when people start throwing around the stupid terms such as "strawman" or "whataboutism" or "misinformation" when they don't like what others have to say. Here are just a couple of links that come up when searching for bad driver issues with Nvidia.
Nvidia has yanked the latest WHQL graphics driver release (196.75) from its website after reports started pouring in about insane temperature increases and card failures. According to...
www.techspot.com
After closing a game, you might see the Nvidia driver sucking down CPU cycles until you reboot.
www.extremetech.com
There has been multiple WHQL drivers from Nvidia that has cooked cards. I know there is also at least one from AMD that cooked cards. Each side has bad drivers. There are many other people having issues with similar things on both sides - black screens, instability, loss of performance, video playback problems and so on.
Remember, not every driver is going to work with every system. If you use a driver that causes problems, try a different one or go back to the one that was working without fail. I know I had to sit on driver 182.50 for almost a year because anything after it for a while caused so many issues with my setup. Eventually a driver was released that didn't cause any issues, but it took almost a year for that to happen.