This is going to be a thing for some for sure. People expect some magical things from scopes, and delude themselves into seeing what they want to see- reference March scopes, and in my experience ZCO. The half dozen Marches I have used have all been- not just underwhelming form the magical side, but just objectively underwhelming as a base aiming device. The ZCO’s I have seen are fine and good to look through, but aren’t anything noteworthy in regards to the other “alpha” scopes- yet people fall all over themselves acting like they are magic.
This scope, if it does what the goals were outlined; will be utterly “normal”. That was the goal- a scope that you mount, zero, and never think about again. A complete none issue. The best compliment will be if people say- “yeah, it’s exactly what a scope should be”.