Well true that the later versions might be fixed but why should the person who buys the first version get screwed? One of the reasons I stopped. Although, the 1/60 VF-1 has me slightly interested.
For the record most of the 1/72s, 1/60s and 1/48s I had were ok. But a few were awful right out of the box with bad part fittings, sloppy paint, broken parts, bad molding etc.