It's not about the platform or even about MS vs Android, etc. While I'm not sure what platform MFT is based on (I've heard people claim its flash based, and now someone saying it's MS embedded), it really doesn't matter.
An unstable platform would present itself as total crashes, reboots, and freezes. Those are, fortunately, rare in MFT when compared to the frequency of other issues.
The fact is that the majority of the MFT issues reflect poor development practices (which includes the entire pipeline... from concept design, project management, software engineering, testing/QA, etc.) If only one or two of those parts of the pipeline were broken, the remaining aspects would have still caught the bugs.
In my 25+ years as a developer, I have never seen such a poor software product - and the only times I've seen it come close, it was the DIRECT result of an unbroken chain of extremely bad decisions by upper management types. The quality of work in MFT isn't even worthy of being called an "alpha testing" release in my opinion - and I don't know a single developer who wouldn't be ashamed at having such a poor product released. I didn't even write it, and I'm embarrassed if any of my peers find out that I have the system in my car. It's really THAT bad.
I can't even imagine the series of incredibly poor decisions that must have been made to get something of such a low quality released. Horrible hiring choices, lousy planning, rushed (and obviously untested) development, no meaningful QA - and the entire thing was probably being managed by "the bosses son" who just got an associates degree in Home Economics. Even then, I STILL can't figure out how so many bugs were released.
For example, they took out options for manually changing DST. So, they KNOW that daylight savings calculations are going to be a concern. How could it possibly have slipped through the cracks that DST wasn't working?! If you're building a car and decide to change from a 6 speed to a 4 speed, one of the FIRST things you're going to check is that the gear transitions work properly with the reduced number of gears, right?
I really just can't understand how a company like Ford managed to get so many things wrong in a single 8 inch screen. It also scares the hell out of me that this same company is selling large trucks and SUVs that could easily kill thousands of people if the rest of the car is implemented half as poorly as the "MFT" system within.