In Germany's defense, if you miss a train connection due to delays, you just board the next connection without needing to have your ticket re-issued for another connection, which is cool.
But the joke is real, I was coming back from Spain to Poland by train recently and everything was fine, until my VERY FIRST STATION IN GERMANY where I got my first delay.
This is true. I spent 4 months abroad recently and on the 4 month mark I started getting text messages from my operator saying "In the last 4 months you spent more time abroad than in your home country. If your usage doesn't change, we will begin billing you X.Y/GB"