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The GoFSR tent is a little better because it has a hard plastic cover and it's electric when it pops open, but ARB, Tepui, CVT, etc all have a cover that you have to zip up. When it rains and you sleep inside, you still have to zip it up wet and then remember to open it lest mold grow rampant when you're back from your trip.
We've also used our tents way more. We'll pack and stow the tent 5 times for a 4-day trip. Once for each night we sleep, and once for when we return from the trip and need to clean and dry.
Compare this with a Habitat from Adventure Trailers or an Autohome Columbus.
Autohome Columbus is one latch, and a push and it's open in 10 seconds.
AT's Habitat is four latches, and a push, and it's open in 90 seconds. (less than 30 seconds if you just want to dry it)
Folks who actually use their tents will find out what's really high quality and what's not.
Autohome Columbus tents run about $2,599 + tax + shipping, Tepui Ayer ~1,000 bucks. Over the course of 75 nights outdoors in a year, I'd gladly take the Columbus.
I've had the ARB Simpson III, My group have run various Tepui, CVT, GoFSR, and Autohome tents.
The ones that stand out are always the hard shell models.