IMO you get what you pay for.
I mean, there's a reason why gaterons cost barely half of price of OG MX. For me, the difference is that Cherry has a solid track record: I can trust their 30-year-old switches and if I take a decades-old G80, I can be relatively certain the keys will be nice. In case of gaterons, I have no such confidence, and that affects switches made within the timespan of only a couple of years from now.
Kaihua appears to be much more serious lately, and I sincerely hope Gateron joins them, but thus far? The only thing they have going for them is relative smoothness… otherwise, it's not dissimilar to previous generations of kaihuas and the vendor reports are pretty much confirming that.