The milspec TDP is intended to be a floor, below which the DoD sees no reason to pay for weapons which will see fielding. In terms of quantities of civilian AR's made, that floor is deemed astronomically high by companies with less than stellar QC/QA, therefore their marketing department steps in with stuff like 'ours is better because it's different', instead of showing large sample size high round count testing set to low statistical P values of MRBF above a certain threshold and improved over the TDP specification.

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Uni-Vibe
Some of this stuff has to be internet-generated. Yesterday's solid self-defense guns are today's "hobby guns." Opinion changes like Paris haute-couture. For a while Noveske was the only one to have, then it was BCM if you wanted to stay alive , then Daniel Defense was the only one in a pinch, now it's KAC . . . . with Colt the perennial winner. All else are suitable only as movie props, or to give to criminals, safe in the knowledge that with the first round fired, they'll instantly deconstruct into a little pile of metal powder.
You're entirely misunderstanding this - Noveske are STILL the barrels and barreled uppers to have if you want the best of both worlds in precision rifles with high durability, not to mention the Gen2 lowers that are arguably the nicest out there; BCM still makes a lot of fantastic components (GF CH, Grips), as well as making very customizable uppers off solid CHF and standard barrels; DanielDefense still makes amazing rails, and have unbeatable deals on complete rifles with CHF barrels and solid rail systems, not to mention the de facto standard for rail affixed iron sights; KAC still have the SR-15, which is arguably the best complete base rifle in existence, with the Mod1 being another incremental improvement over the E3/IWS model; and Colt has always been 'the' standard by which the others are judged, and now that their DoD contract work isn't taking the entire production capacity, the Sprawl-Mart sourced 6920's are the best value in civilian AR's out there.
It's not that hobby guns are inadequate for firing off half a dozen mags a day on a trip to the range to have a good time - they're perfect for that. If ran hard, then you'll start to see the myriad of reasons why people here pay more for rifles.
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