I have never used another Alps board so have only Filcos and Koreans to compare to.
The caps feel nice, but yes they can be fragile I broke 2 removing them from switches. The entire board is pretty fragile. The plate is flimsy and the switches aren't fully against the PCB in a lot of places. Replacing the switches helped, but I don't have a complete board to feel the overall effect since my case is quite dead.
My point behind recommending it which I didn't state explicitly but did mention... you wanted something near browns force level, XM Greens are what you are looking for.