Lego fucking sucks these days. Their quality keeps going down compared to newer competitors like Cobi, Cada, BlueBricks and many other products. Imagine splurging out on a 300+ Dollar set, and Lego still gives you stickers to put on the bricks, meanwhile even a 50$ Cobi set has everything printed in place properly. Its even more incredible how Lego still has a sizeable community that suggests sets and building plans, and Lego alters them so heavily and dumbs them down so much they don't even look anything like what was suggested. One of the worst offenders in that regard is their Orient Express set. They even printed what the suggestion looked like in the instructions. Meanwhile MouldKing rereleased that set, for less money, fully motorized, way more detailed, closer to the original submission and with lights for less money, and it even comes fully printed, no stickers needed. Of course the brick quality is better as well.
Pisses me off how I haven't found anyone in the English speaking internet that doesn't criticize that shit. Everyone seems to gobble it up. Meanwhile, the only guy with some influence who shits on Lego for their dwindling quality is "Held der Steine" who's a German YouTuber in the Lego-Sphere..
Hell, Lego even constantly tries to fuck with shops that don't exclusively sell Legos, but also sell other brands. They tried it with Cease and Desists, threats of suing, and using their lawyers to stop shipments.
And keep in mind, none of it is really enforceable because the patents on their bricks have run out long ago, and just patenting specific styles of bricks isn't really possible, as everyone uses everything these days.
And the argument of them being purely kids toys so the quality can be mid doesn't hold up true anymore with how much Lego sets increased in price, scope, and amounts of bricks.