I some what agree with you
IMO most all game camera's are like pick of the litter
some times you get a GREAT one, some times its a basket case of issues
and cams that are sold in more places will always sell more of them due to many folks are impulse buyers, and in today's world of simple minded people being SO impressionable by marketing
marketing and fancy stickers will sell countless amounts of JUNK FAST
I have never had any luck with moultrie camera's at all, and I have owned well over 50 + cameras of all brands over the yrs , with my first cams being 35 mm film from the 90's
I been playing with game cams a LONG time
there solar power panels have been GREAT however LOL
I have been using lately a bunch of the cheapest cams I can find, TACSO"S at wally world for 25 bucks, and honestly, they been worth ALL of the 25 bucks and then some
thousands of pic's off batterys, FAST wake up time, and SO SO pic's, seldom if ever a pic of NOTHING

but I am not the type of person to NEED to have the most popular brand of anything
I just like things that work and last and get the job done!