Yeah, the AK is very reliable, I have a couple of the civilian versions, they’re just not very accurate, nor are they meant to be. They’re just meant to be cheap, reliable weapons for semi-trained mass armies.
And to open another can of worms, they’re a dumbed-down knockoff of a WW2 German weapon, although Kalashnikov has always denied this.
Now, now, I’m sure the fact that the StG44 and the AK47 both have a gas piston system on top of the barrel is purely co-incidental... After all, the AK has a rotating bolt, and the StG is a tilt delay bolt...