i should have just bought one bind/fly. thats what i might end up doing.
You need to develop more skepticism in marketing. While Plug-n-Play ( often referred to as plug-n-pray ) , Bind-n-Fly sound like it is a ready to go in reality you still have to do the setup, tweaking and tuning any aircraft needs. The settings are sort of close but not really. Nothing mass produced is made with the tolerances required to make them flyable right out of a box and even if they were that precise, they'd still need the tweaking and tuning portion. I'm not even talking about the subjective preferences that each pilot does have.
Next let's discuss the quality control that isn't seen in mass produced products. The number of stories I've read of users that believed the marketing and then lost their model aircraft is common. Not to mention the number of crashes caused by defective products, while less common than the poorly done mass setups... are still a thing. Pilots that order bespoke ( custom ) models that are setup and preflight tested by professionals... still are required to tweak and tune their aircraft after they receive them. There is no way a mass produced model can even come close to what pro builders aren't able to provide.
When you receive a new model, you still must go completely though the model to make sure you see no defects, that all screws and bolts are tightened and lock tighted properly not to mention the rest of a proper setup for the radio.