Yeah I have a bunch of Chinese products I've bought that are way better than any Western products.

For all sorts of products like various electronic devices and kitchen gadgets, they are just iterating way faster on product feedback.

I think of some product I'd like to have, and discover somebody in China invented it 9 months ago and I can buy it through Amazon for $19. I buy it and use it for six months, then realize I really wish it had some other feature. I check Amazon, and now it's in its third generation with the feature I want plus two others.

I don't get why people are complaining. It's genuinely amazing, and a kind of entrepreneurial spirit I can only respect. Why people get hung up on the random-letter brand names is beyond me, who cares?

If there's a Chinese brand that gets a good reputation, then they too will suffer from other Chinese counterfeiters. For example, the "Pinecil" soldering iron from Pine64 got popular, and then warned on their website to only purchase from their official site (or EU distributor site) because Amazon and AliExpress are rife with counterfeits of this Chinese brand soldering iron.

Apple manufactures a lot in China, you can get amazing stuff made in China and many do. The problem is trust (perhaps more specifically, provenance). Is this thing really what it says it is? It is just a strange phenomenon that China has an incredible un-matched industry in making cheap decent-looking imitations (in addition to the actual high-quality products that trusted brands sell).