Kinda like a car is a car if you only want to go from point A to point B, right?
Why don't you drive a Yugo then?
Pretty arrogant claims considering you don't know anything about me, what I shoot, nor the fact that I've been shooting competitions since before you hit puberty. That's cool though. If you think that just because you can hit the paper at 7 yds with an ugly, bulky, and cheap gun that the gun isn't ugly, bulky, and cheap......then cool for you.
I guess you think polished turds are filet mignons too, huh? Nope, they're still turds. Much like a gun that you have to "work" on to GET TO BE reliable is just like a car that you have to turbo charge to be "fast". What is it w/o the turbo? Slow, right? That's a fact, right? How does putting a turbo charger change the fact that it was slow BEFORE? It doesn't, right? Well, if your $150 gun NEEDS ramps polished, springs broken in, magazines broken in, and it doesn't like certain ammo no matter what you do to be considered a "decent" gun......no thanks. I'll pass.
I'd rather admit that I'm broke and call it what it is instead of trying to polish a turd and call it Filet. It's not filet, my friend, no matter how much you polish it. Bottomline.