On the subject of impressive hardware, I would agree that, for the price, you'll be hard pressed to find an off-the-shelf drone that performs as well, and offers as many features, as the Phantoms, regardless of which model you buy. Dollar for dollar, anything else looks to be a compromise on some level. I celebrated one year with my P3S on Black Friday. I paid something less than $370 at Walmart in 2016. In spite of some errors on my part, I've managed to log several hundred miles, fly it well beyond the advertised range, and have it perform one truly amazing feat - it has always returned home, even the times it lost signal and I thought it was gone forever. As basic as the P3S is, its still one amazing engineering marvel based on what it's capable of doing. We've all seen the postings of "fly-away", or, "it just dropped out of the sky like a rock without any warning". And certainly nobody wants to be on the receiving end of that sad news. As painful as those situations are for the owners, it might be helpful to keep those postings in perspective with the whole hobby. In one ironic way, drones are just like real airplanes; you always read about the few flights that don't go well (or crash), but you never read about the thousands of flights that go as planned and land safely every single day. Just my $.02.