People want dirt cheap stuff that has a Bible's worth of advertised features. Amazon's Ring (which is an order of magnitude more expensive than the regular cheap Chinese crap) is a dumpster fire of security and privacy to rival any Chinese brand, yet it consistently gets 4/5 stars in any review, none of which even bothers to mention the litany of findings or the fact that for the price they are unacceptable. But they are acceptable because it's not Chinese.
It's the "Made in" label that counts. People will accept more garbage for a higher price if it has a local label, and will criticize foreign things more for the exact same issues. And that's valid basically almost everywhere in the world.
People want dirt cheap stuff that has a Bible's worth of advertised features. Amazon's Ring (which is an order of magnitude more expensive than the regular cheap Chinese crap) is a dumpster fire of security and privacy to rival any Chinese brand, yet it consistently gets 4/5 stars in any review, none of which even bothers to mention the litany of findings or the fact that for the price they are unacceptable. But they are acceptable because it's not Chinese.
It's the "Made in" label that counts. People will accept more garbage for a higher price if it has a local label, and will criticize foreign things more for the exact same issues. And that's valid basically almost everywhere in the world.