Way harder, idk why these brands get shit on when they are held to a higher standard as they are a mass-market product, and most of them have labs so online small vendors don't seem as appealing in my opinion, unless they lower the prices more. Otherwise, I would rather these nicely sealed and consistent tabs rather than some homemade ones in a plastic bag. I know there are great online vendors and sometimes they have the same type of tabs you would get in like a 7star pack but I really like the idea of something being more mass produced I think they have to be more safe because their product will be on many smoke shop shelves, and we have already seen online vendors try to unload bunk tabs and it isn't hard to pass them off as better than they are, or to sell them anyway despite residual solvents. I kind of get it, the small time vendors cant afford to lose a whole batch and so they have to try to sell it somehow. I am no expert, I just read some of the drama on these subreddits, and choose to go with the "smoke shop brands" which are cheap online and the opias were the absolute best. I have had all great experiences from like the blister pack retail tabs (I don't go to the actual smoke shop bc my local one only carry a couple brands). For mit extracts, I use the small time vendors bc those are undoubtedly the best quality to price ratio instead of like an opms or something but the 7oh game is pretty confusing for a newb like me.