While I have been a model builder for many years on and off and right now in a deep slump due to health issues, I buy model car kits if they are something I'M interested in and it doesn't matter to me if the emblem on the body is 3/32" scale inches off or the windshield washer fluid bottle is set back too far, etc. When I buy and build a kit I do it because I want to and because it would look great on MY shelf. When I display my built models at club meetings, NNL's, or contest other builders don't look at my builds with a micrometer, or other such tools. In fact to ME when a new kit is issued, the choice to buy the kit is VERY simple, either I want it or I don't. And no I rarely "fix" a kit to any degree. Last kit I fixed had two fluid bottles mounted on the top of the fender well and one needed to be removed, simple.
If a builder wants to rag about a kit and spends their modeling time writing to the manufacturer, or other builders, to me that's wasting time and I have plenty of other ways to waste my time instead of the context of plastic pieces in a model box.