Strongly agree - I've spent a great deal of time trying to find a good GUI for gdb, but it's all so janky compared to proper IDE debugging. As a result I only break out gdb as a last resort where printf statements don't do the job.
The other debugger frontend that works quite ok is QtCreator.
However, I think it's aiming to solve different bugs than I am usually after. I want a very quick-to-use debugger because I like to step through all my code as I'm writing it to sanity check. It generally just helps me stay focused and make fewer errors (I'm not the most detail-oriented person in the world, and the debugger helps keep me on the rails).
Pernosco/rr are invaluable tools for solving much tougher bugs, but I want a better debugger for the "every-day" sort of stuff as well. Thank you for pushing the state of the art though, Pernosco is jaw-dropping!