Ok you win. My hat off to you. Even if I include supervisor that quit on my previous PhD attempt (I worked in industry in between) and my current grantless supervisor who would have happily graduated me with a copy of his last student’s project with some numbers changes if I hadn’t put my foot down and insisted on my own project. And the fact that my school strongly discourages examiners unless the supervisor wants them.
2) Supervisor 2 sued the university and ended up leaving
3) Supervisor 1 returned, got me to re-write
4) Supervisor 1 went on maternity leave again
5) Supervisor 3 (head of dept) forced me to rewrite and completely change the focus
6) Supervisor 1 returns, says nothing about change of focus
7) Supervisor 3 leaves
8) Supervisor 1 asks me to rewrite to original way
9) Supervisor 4 comes in (super helpful, especially with the stats)
10) Supervisor 4 gets heart disease, takes early retirement
11) I finally say fuck it and put in the PhD
12) Supervisor 1 says I didn't read it all, see what the examiners say
13) Examiners very sceptical I wrote the whole thing, until the actual exam
14) I get major corrections, all of which were down to my refusal to follow APA style in my tables (because it's stupid).
15) I finally graduate, three years after getting my first private sector job.
So, yeah, PhD's can be bad for everyone ;)