They are certainly much better than the competition. That said, do not believe the marketing hype. If you want to accept various kinds of payments, you will eventually run into the stupid limitations of the payment system, and Stripe APIs will not abstract this for you in spite of what they advertise.

For example, redirect-based payment methods (iDEAL, Bancontact, Sofort) are a huge source of complexity, and handling all the additional states a payment can be in is far from obvious. Stripe mostly just drops them in your lap and says "deal with it".