Hmm, needing to add platform-tools into your path is definitely a bug, but I can’t find anywhere in the code that runs adb without a full path 
As for your device, I mention making sure that “adb devices” shows your device, as that is what we use to find the device. Every device is different with different drivers - we can’t document what you need to do for your particular one to make the PC be able to talk to it.
You should be able to take any project and Package or One Click Deploy to Android (it may crash from memory or whatever, but should never fail to package it up). In which case “adb logcat” or other Android tools can get the log, and then you can report those errors 
So, basically, no, we aren’t aware of the issues you are having…
Josh