Is Slack More Buggy for Community Building in 2023?

Q: Has Slack become more buggy lately? I'm spinning up a new Slack community for a new product launch (Gist) and just started inviting beta testers. The first user I invited accepted the invite and was logged in, but couldn't open the channel in the Slack desktop app. We spent ~10min debugging, restarting the app, and trying to get it working on their phone. It was super weird and makes me wonder if Slack has become a more hostile environment for community building since I last built one of these? Note: This was a Slack I started ~5 months ago, was dead, and is now being revived. Dunno if that could impact things somehow.