Good luck wth it.
For me personally, the killer problem with ADE2.0/2.0.1 is that it has curious issues with Sony ereaders and library books.
With my Sony ereader plugged in, ADE2 won't be able even to read library books, let alone transfer them to the Sony.
Unplug the Sony and ADE can read the books (though obviously not transfer them).
That problem applied on Vista and Windows 8/8.1 ... I've never had Windows 7.
Apart from that issue, ADE2.0 and 2.0.1 have run fine for me on Windows 8/8.1
However, as you will see browsing these forums there are lots of other problems with ADE2 that using 1.7.2 instead has resolved for other users.
Some of these may be operating system related but most are not.
I've got quite a bit of experience with dodgy software, and I put the blame 99% on ADE2.
(I guess much of your research on 'consensus' was different posts in my hate relationship with ADE2.0 as terrible software of the decade.)
To be fair, there is one issue that does seem to be a Windows one and not an Adobe one,
where it is somtimes very difficult to get filetype association to ADE working properly without resorting to third partly file association software.