Maybe HP has improved in computers in more recent years but my experience hasn't been good. Every HP high end desktop I've owned, and its been several, have come to a bad end with mother board failures.
@DB Oh believe me, brother, I know what you mean. If you'd have told me 10 years ago that I would own a single HP/Compac, I would have laughed you out of the house... Not to mention 5 of them, and that they would be my core machines. But at least in their professional line, I have found them lately to be very, very good.
In addition HP has a bad habit of making drivers/apps that don't play nice with others.
Again, I would have made the very same argument not so long ago. I just reloaded my laptop due to a drive failure, so it is fresh in my mind. I loaded it clean w/ Win10Pro, got the chipset direct from Intel, got the vid direct from NVidia, and the rest either detected properly on install or loaded up on update. Only 3 drivers came from the HP site - The card reader, the fingerprint driver, and the freefall driver, of which only the freefall driver was an HP product... The other two were aftermarket that didn't detect well, and getting them direct from the laptop's driver site was just the easiest route.
Now it could be that their native software might still be problematic, as I never load a machine with all that crapware anyway... But at the driver level, your statement is no longer a concern.
In thirty some odd years I've had one Dell work station die an unnatural death and I've had many Dell workstations/high end computers over that time. But Dell isn't the company it once was so I'm giving Lenovo a try with a ThinkPad P1 mobile work station.
I am a whitebox boy, and have been most all the way along - The only whitebox I have left is my main server, with the lion's share of my systems being HP - and that is really saying something. I have always had a fair opinion of Dell (though their homeowner line leaves much to be desired as compared to whitebox builds) - I have an older Dell professional box running my main media server... Of the branded boxen, I would have always put Dell at the top for recommendation, fighting for that spot with IBM/Lenovo. Lenovo gives me the impression of sturdy reliability, sometimes at the cost of comparable performance. But they last and last.
Lenovo is always a good choice. Good luck with that.