TBH, use Manchester many a time. only bad experience we've was just after the last lockdown, really like Manchester.
Haven't used it since we landed 11 hours late after a technical fault caused the flight to be seriously delayed, and Manchester then left us waiting a further 4 hours for our bags, even though bags for other flights were coming out straight away because, we were told, they were on time.
Yep, looks like we've had different experiences at Manchester. East Midlands is brilliant and simple to get to.
Used Manchester last week for a holiday to Crete. No problems, apart from full of drunk jocks at 6am on their way to Germany. We usually use Jet2 out of Leeds, but their flight times were bobbins, so it was easyjet from Manc. Main gripe is that they charge for trolleys. No need...