Your calling bullshit on personal experience? haha ok. Yours may be different, but I have owned a lot of shit and a lot of goretex, both the normal stuff and the XCR stuff, and the burton jacket is the best one I have ever owned, including a bonfire, oakley, sessions, quicksilver, and north face jacket that I have had these last few years which were all gore-tex, plus other oakleys, spyders, and fate jackets.
Sucks that you got a jacket that didn't work out, but I am completely stoked on mine.