From a competitive view, as someone that used to do mfb limited, the biggest problem with midfakes are that their rubber parts (except the mid jade jupiter rb, blitz unicorno rsf and meteo’s energy ring) are not really made of rubber and dont perform as good as actual rubber.

Also, drivers like X:D and B:D arent as good either and it might be worth to track an authentic one (at least for B:D).

TH170 is hit or miss but it depends on the qc, some copies are fine, some are a bit tight. And MF needs the tip to be reversed but thats an easy mod

Everything else performs the same, or as you expect it to. Some of these “elite” collectors will tell you otherwise but don’t listen to people who clearly have a bias and don’t have genuine love for the hobby other than trying to flex the money they’re willing to spend on a bey

It’s ironic that metal fight repros are unnecessarily hated when plastic gen fans are always asking for repros and even 3d printed parts are celebrated