You may be right. Few offerings nowadays are not without their quirks and possibly their shortcomings. Perhaps we as consumers have become complacent in almost expecting problems. We have all heard of those appliances from 50 years ago that may still run, but you buy a Samsung dishwasher in the past 15 years - likely you have replaced it a couple of times (or in my case, 4). A repair guy once told me things are not engineered to last decades like they used to be. I am not sure if firearms are any different but certainly what was once a higher degree of worksmanship seems to now be in favour for expedient production.
I owned a KV and never really was completely sold on it (of course, unfortunately I was dumb and ignorant and overpaid for it) - the goofy aesthetics seemed ultimately to be more of a novelty than anything else. The Sub2000 was the same for me - folding was fine and neat but after a while actual functionality and usability issues (for me) trumped the novelty folding thing.
While I never owned one, I have heard from multiple people that the CZ Scorpion Evo3 was one of the best offerings in the PCC market in recent member in terms of sheer reliability - unfortunately unless the OIC gets turned over, I'll never get a chance to validate this myself. That said I am glad that there are more offerings like the Raven on the horizon. Certainly even if something more gimmicky like that POF Tomestone show up, at the very least it is a company trying something new so I will have to give them that.
Buying Canadian is also very compelling to me. Was looking at a Crusader K9 but the price was just hard to swallow. I agree with you - for what we are getting it is probably all overpriced, but what isn't nowadays. I remember getting my original 10/22 for under $200 and thinking that was expensive compared to my Savage which was even less. I never in a million years thought I would spend $500 for a firearms, much less over $1000.
