Speaking of just regular pegs (I know nothing of the Perfection or other geared pegs), I think that maybe part of why tuning from the pegs gives some folks a bit of trouble is because they try to avoid it. 

If regular pegs aren't moved often, I think it increases the tendency to stick.  It's just kind of natural with any sort of a friction-based connection, maybe.  

I don't use any fine tuners on my acoustic violin, and it just has plain old pegs.  I haven't found it particularly hard to peg tune it.  I think it did stick and "jump" a little the first week or so.  But as they got used to being moved often, they smoothed out.

Another thing is I think some folks may actually push the pegs in too hard, to try and make sure they don't slip.  I have even heard folks being told "as hard as you can", which I personally think can run the risk or damaging the pegbox, since some folks will have stronger hands than others.  It only needs to be pressed in hard enough to hold, and exactly how much that is will take some experimenting to find out. 

I have noticed some noobs hate to touch the pegs if they can possibly avoid it.  I think I kinda skipped that stage maybe because I have an oud.  Those have a pegbox, like a violin, but a lot more ebony pegs to tune.  Mine has 12, and I've been tuning it for I think about 3 yrs or so now.  So tuning the violin pegs always seemed like light work to me.  There's only those 4 pegs to have to worry about.  LOL

But so far as I've seen with plain wood pegs, the more often they are used, the easier they are to work with. 

Not that there's anything wrong with fine tuners, if you want them.  I use a tailpiece with built-in fine tuners on my electric.  The electric tends to drift out of tune a little bit with the wider temperature changes in warm weather, so it's handy to have the fine tuners on it to be able to just touch it up now and then as needed. 

With my acoustic, I decided to try going without them when I changed from a carbon tailpiece with built-ins to a plain ebony tailpiece.  I just like the look and sound (subjective observation) a bit better on my acoustic without them and don't find tuning from the pegs to really be any more bother 98% of the time.  Once in a while it will be a little fussy when heat and humidity are high and it may take an extra few seconds to tune up.  But really, once you're used to it, it's no big thing.