Shepp - My wallet sure hopes not. I will admit I feel like I did dive into an unknown pool. But, I guess someone has to be first. I've owned and shot factory builds from Armalite and Windham. And owned and shot a couple of franken builds.
Im not a high end factory built fan. Seen enough of them at the range, all my previously owned .308 platforms hit what I aimed at and went bang every single time. But then my purpose is strictly a shtf option for out to 200 yards. So low end price range with a few mods achieves that purpose all day long.