JAK
I think the real test is skiing or snow shoeing in your rain pants for a few hours including some sweating, then put your hand in your pants and feel your underwear and legs. Are they dry? I generally wear patagonia microfleece longunderwear bottoms under my LLBean paclite pants, and they breath well enough that they allways keep me dry and they never "freeze up".

But this thread is about jackets. I have had zipper problems with marmot jackets but they were fixed at no cost. I have never had any failure of any TNF gear including my goretex jacket and pants.

However goretex is a fabric and you wear a garment made of a fabric by someone other than the fabric mfr, so you could get a poor quality goretex jacket, not that I'm saying that about Cabelas. Afterall a million deer hunters can't be completely wrong, can they?
Jim