[Cory]

You can polish a turd and you can make decent to good parts with a crap machine, but there's really no objective argument that the mini mills sold by grizzly (and most other rebadgers of Chinese equipment) are not somewhere between bad and terrible.

Having the ability to spend a bit more money makes a huge difference in maintainability, ease of use, resistance to damage by novice users, and lowers the amount of effort required to produce good parts.