I agree on that if we are talking about our father's or grandfather's revolvers.
The previous generation of common purchases were high quality and some makes were known to take the best trigger jobs.
I taught firearms safety, basic use and marksmanship classes. I had to include the caution about decisions when buying handguns for self defense. In spite of cnc machines there's been an inconsistency in quality over recent years. We live in a time with more choices than any in history.
Example, a lady wanted to attend a gun show with a couple of her friends.
She was told by one guy to get an overpriced S&W .38 because it was Uber reliable. Another friend suggested a low use surplus German P6 that had extra mags a holster and acceptable trigger which could be improved considerably while maintaining reliability. She could rack the slide and pull the double action trigger without tremble or too much exertion. It cost less than the Smith. She was asked if she could get assistance talking down the over full retail tag.
She went with the S&W.
She went to the range and wanted to learn how it functions. She had no problem with others she tried, including the civilian version of the Sig. She enjoyed the ease of use, grip size, recoil impulse and trigger pull.
She was very accurate with it.
We spent a lot of time with her new Smith.
She had a lot of difficulty keeping the rounds on target and a number of reliability issues.
Those were probably issues that could be remedied with some work and practice. One thing of common note were the rough cylinders.
If she bought an older vintage of the exact same model, it would have been a joy for her to use.
Like a lot of things, vintage is sometimes better.
Tim Sundels on his 44 mag purchases.
