Not a Gore-Tex product tester, just a guy who does hard group rides year-round in the PNW. Hence I don't ride when it's icy, only down to about 35 and raining or snowing lightly. But I have ridden in a lot of cold rain. I've never found a waterproof/breathable jacket that works for me in a cold rain. I get overheated. Testing has found that cyclists perform best at 50° and dry. So any heating slows me down, and you can't get rid of it in a jacket because there's no evaporative cooling near the skin. So the only thing that works for me is a microfiber-type windproof jacket. It's so true that if it won't fit easily in a jersey pocket, it's not going to work.

The Performance jacket I've been using isn't made anymore. It's just a shell with no pockets, no collar lining, no nothing, just a zipper in the front. It's looking really trashed, though, so I bought a Pearl Izumi Elite Barrier Convertible Jacket. It's suboptimal because it has stupid pockets. Don't need pockets. Current Performance offerings all have pockets AFAIK.

Discussing a winter jacket alone isn't appropriate, really. You want a winter clothing system, everything you're going to take with you on a winter century, for instance. So if you have a jacket, you'll also need a vest, though the reverse is not necessarily true. A buddy of mine never uses a jacket, no matter what it's doing. The PI Convertible promised to eliminate the vest and it's sort of OK. One can go from jacket to vest, but going the opposite way is impractical because it takes too long unless you do it at a lunch stop or something. No way to do it on the bike, even stopping for a minute. So it didn't work out as well as I had hoped.

If you're wearing a windproof shell, you've got on stuff under it. Craft T-shirt, either long or short sleeve depending on temp is good, then a jersey of some some sort, depending on temp. A fav of mine is long sleeve Craft, arm warmers, short sleeve jersey and jacket or vest. That has a wide temperature variation and quick to alter it. Long sleeve Craft and long sleeve heavy poly jersey and jacket goes down to 35° and raining for me.

Still looking for a perfect winter jacket, though.