Voxelab Aquila vs Creality Ender 5

I bought this in early 2021, and put 100+ hours of printing, usually in PLA. Let's start with the bad, as that's what everyone wants to know: BAD: Right out of the box, it needs a few upgrades to be reliable and safe (safe, more on that later) 1) Upgrade the Bowden extruder drive gear to an aluminum one. The heat and force on the plastic one breaks quite easily. I tried cobbling the old one together and 3D printing a replacement, but they generally have too much slop to extrude properly

This is the first Creality product I've ever bought, and the last I will ever waste money on. I've had six different printers now and this has more problems than every other one combined. The repeatable failure is a massive layer shift on the X axis at the same layer, in the same direction, with the same distance every time; the bed doesn't move, I've tried adjusting the belt tension, the carriage tension, and different code from different computers, different SD cards, and different filament, but nothing has fixed this. This is the final straw and I just don't want to deal with this printer anymore