Am I the only one with the opinion that the ball core+maglev rs3m no longer counts as a budget cube, but as an outright flagship?
I'd hardly call the ball core/maglev version a "Budget" cube anymore when it's basically priced as a flagship cube now. Granted it's a few dollars cheaper, but It's not like the original rs3m2020 where you could get two for the price of one flagship; nowadays it's a small handful of dollars off.
My guess MoYu is trying to get away with calling the ball core/maglev a "budget cube with premium features," therefore using this moniker as a method to generate extra sales. Yet, with its price tag, I hardly see that as being the case anymore, especially when it's in the price bracket of other flagships. For only few extra dollars, you can get both of the newer tornadoes (v2 and v3), the wrm 2021 lite, The original Valk, Tengyun v1, Tianma Standard AND Enhanced, and a couple of the non-adjustable GAN cubes (356 Air M, 356 M, and 354v2M.)
Provided, for the price, you do get a couple neat features, but at the same time, other cubes in its very same price range have adjustable magnet strengths (The Weilong WRM 2021 and Tornado base models), which this does not. Furthermore, the price of this cube puts it right in the line of fire of the Tianma Enhanced, which is honestly an incredible cube witj the same level of customization and foot magnets (Which more or less have similar homing properties as corner-core).
To paraphrase my argument, I'm not saying the rs3m super ball/maglev is bad. What I'm trying to say is that it no longer really counts as being a budget cube, and therefore shouldn't really be treated as one.
I would count the standard as a high-end budget cube, and the maglev as a midrange, as it's technically in the pricerange of the tianma standard edition.
