Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 - anyone have problems with these?

[Sunbelt57]

https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-XIAO- ... -5431.html
I saw a YT video about these and a few comments said they were junk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFYCHeL84w
@outkast187
2 months ago
100% of mine fail and have to use boot mode to get any write to work. Then, they are useless because they wont connect till you do it again. Complete garbage.
@terrificmenace
2 months ago
Xiao boards get bricked very easily when you use the UART with 3.3v signals
@Steve98345
1 month ago
These are pretty useless. Not programmable in the Arduino IDE and very temperamental. After many hours wasted, I binned it.

[JoeSensoric]

Your video is about the C6, not the C3. Both are supported by the Arduino core for the ESP32
https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32
I have both XIAO working fine.