I could not give less of a shit about counterfeit goods, but of course for safety there understandably are rules and those rules should be enforced.

In general, though, Aliexpress has a lot of goodwill with me; I buy stuff from there with some regularity and personally have seldom made a bad buy. I'm still rocking my decade old €10 polarized sunglasses, my 2018 €25 soldering iron, screwdriver and so forth.