It always depends to what you compare. I visited Germany twice for a total of about 15 days, taking trains mostly every day, and I don’t recall any major issues. I read online since my first visit in 2016 that it got much worse so I expected at least some issues when I went back in 2024, but it went well, either in RE trains or in ICE. Of course, it’s a very small sample and I’m Canadian, so anything more than five trains a day and not yielding to freight is just magical to me.
It always depends to what you compare. I visited Germany twice for a total of about 15 days, taking trains mostly every day, and I don’t recall any major issues. I read online since my first visit in 2016 that it got much worse so I expected at least some issues when I went back in 2024, but it went well, either in RE trains or in ICE. Of course, it’s a very small sample and I’m Canadian, so anything more than five trains a day and not yielding to freight is just magical to me.