Yes, GDB can feel a little crappy at times. But on the other hand it is quite versatile in that it can debug programs written in several different languages run

Yes, GDB can feel a little crappy at times. But on the other hand it is quite versatile in that it can debug programs written in several different languages running on several different hw architectures, user space or kernel space, code running on bare metal or in QEMU, etc and remote debugged over a serial line or network. All this comes at a price. GDB can never be as nice as a language specific, graphical point and click debuggers that some programming environments have which are built in conjunction with the compiler/interpreter for that language. And the problem is not only GDB, it's the whole infrastructure that is involved, binary formats, debug symbols and protocols, binutils, etc. It is easy to point the finger at GDB but there's only so much that GDB can do in the environment(s) that it works in. There's plenty of room for improvement but it's not only GDB that would require work, it's the entire software ecosystem.