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I've been using btrfs for years, and I'd swear I've had fewer problems with it than ext4. I've never experienced any sort of data loss as a result of the fs.
I'm really interested to play with bcachefs; evolution and competition is a great thing, and it'd be nice to have a reliable RAID5 built in. While I normally prefer Unix-philosophy tooling, needing layers of different tools to get an FS working is an exception that has caused me trouble in the past, so I'm all for a batteries-included solution.
The proof in the pudding, for me, will be how easy or hard it is to administer. Messing with the fs tooling is something I do only rarely, so ease-of-use has a lot of value to me. This is why I don't prefer ZFS; the btrfs tooling seems more intuitive.