Is OCZ really the issue? Or is it the sandforce controllers in general?
As a new owner of a Vertex 3, I've spent some quality time lurking in their forums and I'm definitely left with the impression that OCZ leaves it to their customer base to be their beta-testers.
OCZ might have the most active firmware program of all the sandforce vendors but it comes at a price, and OCZ seems to heavily rely on its customer base to shoulder the burden of paying that price.
The only experience I can equate this to is that of the early days of Nvidia's initial 680i chipset release in which it was just an utter crapshoot of bios revs in determining whether or not your kentsfield quadcore chip was going to work with memory timings xyz and so on.
OCZ gets an A+ from me in terms of
effort to do right by the consumer, but as an OCZ consumer you have to realize that OCZ is intending on you becoming a volunteer beta-tester for their benefit as well. So long as you recognize this symbiotic relationship exists when you buy your OCZ drive then your expectations will be met.
If you are more expecting to have a solid, less likely to have firmware issues than otherwise, experience then you need to go with Intel, accept the lowered performance at the same cost, and be happy to have a product that was thoroughly debugged in-house before being brought to the market.
Just my 2-cents as a G2 and a V3 owner.