> Anyway i would complain when it was 5minutes late. "This is ridiculous!! How can the trains be so bad here!!!".
> Now having lived in the USA for almost a decade i will never again complain like this.
The German way is rather to compare the punctuality of the German trains to Swiss or Japanese ones: these are a lot more punctual, so this problem is mostly solvable.
Thus German citizens legitimately ask why are the Swiss and Japanese able to solve this problem, and we can't? In particular in consideration that this is considered to be an engineering problem where many German citizens consider Germany to be better in than Switzerland or Japan (legitimately or not shall remain undecided).
Japan has dedicated lines for high-speed trains and a mostly north-south corridor.
Germany has mixed-use lines in a meshed network directly connected to neighbour countries.
> where many German citizens consider Germany to be better in than Switzerland or Japan (legitimately or not shall remain undecided).
I think you made that up. Germans complain a lot about their infrastructure and you can read&see a lot of reports&comparisons with other countries train infrastructure.
> Now having lived in the USA for almost a decade i will never again complain like this.
The German way is rather to compare the punctuality of the German trains to Swiss or Japanese ones: these are a lot more punctual, so this problem is mostly solvable.
Thus German citizens legitimately ask why are the Swiss and Japanese able to solve this problem, and we can't? In particular in consideration that this is considered to be an engineering problem where many German citizens consider Germany to be better in than Switzerland or Japan (legitimately or not shall remain undecided).