What you are describing feels more like a problem with your use of Goodreads, rather than the website itself. There are other, much bigger, problems with Goodreads: the reviews are hit-or-miss, the community is very biased towards certain authors and genres, Amazon owns it, and some of its key features (keeping track of books, book recommendations, book lists) are mediocre at best.

The only thing for which I find Goodreads useful nowadays is searching books to find their synopsis, page count and ISBN. If you are looking for a better website to keep track of your books, try Libib. It's far from perfect but it allows you to keep track of your books, has a decent UI, is not owned by Amazon and has no public review system (which I see as a pro, rather than a con). Unfortunately, it doesn't do book recommendations.