By that logic we'd all be shooting SP1s. Or at least all Colts.
The how and why of making ARs run well is fairly well known and I have some very Gucci-tier stuff and I have some cheaper ones and at the end of the day they are all quite reliable, even though I assembled most of them myself (with a couple of exceptions; I do have an older Colt upper that was factory assembled and an older CMMG upper that is as I bought it).
Any great timeless gun design is going to be cloned. 1911, BHP, Glock, AR, Ak, various HK rifles.....the design shouldn't be judged by the cheapest clone, for sure, but the reality is that the vast majority of PSA rifles run fairly well, and, painful truth here, most of even the cheapest stuff, will outdo what they typical user actually *does* with it. There are truckloads of even Bear Creek ARs out there that will never be ran to failure.
