If you are talking sewing on quilting type fabric (cotton woven lighter weight) then no- any decent machine with tension and pressure adjusted correctly, with the correct needle should form a nice stitch. (IMO, quilting cotton fabric is the easiest fabric to sew on).
Now, if you start talking knits, silk, heavy weight fabric . . ., then I've seen many, many low end machines that just can't do it well. With knits, I've seen many high end vintage machines that can't handle it well, but they were not built to sew fabric like that.