So let me see if I get your argument: The marketing department gave a little overly ambitious name to its guns and therefore the guns are crap. Riiight. this is indeed a very good reason to crap on actual guns without trying them! What do we call people who hate on someone or something based entirely on labels instead of trying out for themselves?
Ah, yes, your second point: why spend money on a trigger when you buy an S&W Performance Center gun. These guns, despite the misleading label, are still sub-$7000 guns. Just like ANY sub-$700 gun, they can be improved tremendously by replacing two things: the trigger and the sights(sights are less so since they are cheap and plentiful so manufacturers are finally using decent sights). I dare you to find ANY handgun(not revolver) for under $700 that has a great trigger out of the box.
Dude, it is not just marketing, the actual guns are sh*t.
I will give you my experience with the 929 because it is the last P.C. gun I will ever buy.
9 mm ... cylinder cut to .357/.358 - a .356 9mm bullet passes right through the cylinder. A .357 passes through 3 of the 8 cylinders. This is 100% a corporate desicion to use their .357 cutting tools for a 9mm to maybe save a couple of bucks per gun, on a $1200 gun.
Front sight = pure sh*t and can't be easily replaced, you need to drill the new sight. Great job on a competition gun. They don't even make an effort to put a good competition sight.
Red dot attachment = non existent. Machining the gun - f*ck that, ain't nobody got time for dat. You want a dot, remove the rear sight. You want to switch back, LOL, go sight it in again.
Trigger = single action, awesome (it is almost impossible to f*ck up the single action part, even a Taurus is fairly smooth) - double action? LOL, total piece of sh*t.
Comp - a total joke. So bad, most people throw it away.
All the internals need a ton of polishing.
Hammer needs to be replaced.
All springs need to be replaced.
I wish there was a way to fix the cylinder, I tried to get a blank and have a company cut it. SW might sell me one to fix their POS cylinder.
After doing all the work the gun shoots great with .358 bullets or .357 plated.
Not a lot of performance from the Performance Center in a gun they sell as "competition ready".
They sell kit guns. If you buy with that expectation you won't be disappointed.
I knew I was going to have to do work to it, but the cylinder was a surprise, that really bothered me because it is a clear example of something pushed by some corporate c*nt looking at a spreadsheet, a c*nt that most likely doesn't even own a gun.
Charge me $50 more and do it right the first time. Instead they show how little they care, they are the Walmart / Amazon of gun manufacturers, push a ton of low quality junk.