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I can't answer your reliability question as I have never used an octocanum chassis, but my team plans to use one for this season and the second team at my school used versadrop modules for butterfly drive in preseason so hopefully I can help a little.
Firstly, it is a beast to assemble. On our sister team's advice, we have booked a solid week for assembly by a group of two or three, roughly 48 man hours of work.
If your team is used to using transmission, you can do that as well (even though I don't believe it is explicitly supported) by using vex transmissions (I think. I know that my sister team used a transmission, but not sure from which supplier).
I'm sure you already know this, but vex includes an astonishing CAD of the chassis. You really have no excuse if you assemble it wrong as the CAD includes each individual rivet.
Also, my entire team has resolved to call it "octanum" after struggling with "octocanum" for too long 😀
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Remember, however, that such software limitations in no way approximate the functionality of a multiple-speed, mechanical transmission. They're simply a convenient way of limiting your students' lead feet. - Madison [more] 
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