When you give Up quality for the sake of money, you piss off the old time base. They also spent too much time in Ilyon, NY. They should have stayed small and moved to a gun friendly state. This was easy to see 8 or 10 years ago. I own a lot of Remington firearms. All at least 25 years old. Colt is as bad. Money blood suckers kill good company’s and screw the employees. Wonder Bread suffered the same thing.
Probably the most famous (infamous) was the post-64 Winchester, with its stampings, roll pins, stained birch stocks - which killed their reputation overnight.
I interviewed for Colt an number of years ago and the craftsmen and ladies were still there but management despised their workers, had no interest in their products and no affection for us gun owners. End of story.
What they do not understand is that most of us would pay the greater price for old-time hand-fitted quality.