Mate. Am I not allowed to tell people my experience? For me it definitely got better. On launch all the website were constantly crashing for me. The days me, my family and friends got one there was none of that. So yes, it did get better.
I think the problem here is, I say it got better, you hear there was pyramids of stock everywhere and it was super easy to get.
No issues here either and also know a couple of people IRL who also had no issues getting a 3080 FE. The retailer nvidia used for UK had slightly better anti bot measures in place such as changing the URL each time, captcha and limiting to 1 purchase. Certainly no chance of getting one if you just relied upon reading forums here, refreshing manually yourself but with the right setup/prep, definetly achievable and not just a case of having to use a bot yourself to secure one.