Just an opinion here but I think that the root problem is the modern manufacturing and its ability to adapt its product. Face it revolvers are a lot different product than the modern semi auto handguns that are a mass production designed product. Revolvers are holdover from a time of hand craftsmanship and cheap skilled labor. These days companies like S&W are struggling to keep revolvers in production and reduce the need for skilled high priced labor for fitting. IMO they and all others have not yet figured out how to do this on the scale consumers demand. Frankly I am amazed at how well they do. I have had a couple of returns to S&W and others but so far have only had positive results. Like everyone else I miss the old days of works of handfitted art but unless there is a dramatic shift in the industrial arena those days are long gone to likely never return. It is my hope that S&W will figure out how to produce revolvers with the consistent quality consumers expect.