Deluge,
You are correct, I only personally own the H. Where 3DR products are concerned I use their flight controllers and earlier aircraft, quad and X8 specifically, for personal activities. Note I use the word "personal". I keep activities in other areas off the web. With 3DR, it's not the aircraft or the camera that makes great things happen, it's the FC. Anything the Solo can do can be reproduced, and greatly expanded, with DIY aircraft. Another tangible benefit of 3DR FC's is they are not limited to single branded accessory components. One can use anything they want, made by pretty much any after market supplier, be that a camera or other payload. It's a **** shame the company committed consumer level suicide.
As for DJI, for me they are a "used to" item. I've always built my own aircraft and had employed Wookong on a Cinestar quite effectively for it's time. Tried an early A2 and got burned. After losing the cost of the A2 once it was established as a defective, never to be corrected or replaced unit, I've never found a good reason to permit them to screw me again. In effect I donated $1,200.00 to DJI along with many hours of trouble shooting labor and got nothing in return. If DJI corporate ever elected to made amends perhaps my attitude would change. So there ya go.
Thanks for reviewing your sad experience with the A2. Again. For the hundredth time.
My issue is that this grudge holding, which you imply could be solved by DJI just 'making amends' i.e. paying you for your lost time and trouble, colors your views on all subsequent DJI products. You don't own them. You don't fly them. You haven't had occasion to deal with their CS in the last couple of years. Yet you have this relentless drumbeat of negativity. And because of you broad experience and knowledge otherwise, your anti-DJI bias I fear misleads others looking for objective assessments. Say what you will, my assessments of YTH, P4, and Solo *are* objective. I have no axe to grind. I call them as I see them. I don't like smear campaigns, no matter who there are against. Yet you seem to see no distinction from fake posters spouting worthless criticisms. Valid criticisms on the other hand are the price of producing a product.
Imagine if everyone who had a bad experience with a manufacturer not only made a personal decision not to buy from that manufacturer again (certainly their right), but also launched into a permanent crusade to trash talk that manufacturer at every turn. I mean look at the posters here who are having terrible problems with the YTH and Yuneec customer service. And in Europe of all places. Would you be pleased to see them recouting their 2016 experiences in 2019, assuring people that Yuneec is a terrible company and that their products suck? Regardless of how Yuneec might have changed in the interim?
And worst of all is the way you and others so casually lump folks who happen to have had generally positive experiences with a company you despise into a category consisting of zealots, shills, employees, and sponsored users. You do me a great disservice when you lump me so casually in with DJI zealots. I am no such thing.