^This. Often exactly the problem with so-called professional reviews. At least on Amazon, one can attempt to skim through the newest reviews to try to ascertain the more valuable in-depth reviewers who have tried to use the item most recently, and/or those reviewers who come back at a later date and add an edit with appended information on performance.
But it's always hard to get an accurate overview of what works and what doesn't in tech land, these days.
Its especially annoying when manufacturers sell directly, without offering any place for users to come back and comment on the product. This I think, is one reason why many companies do not sell immediately directly on Amazon (sometimes only releasing much later on after months have passed), and quite frankly is a pain in the backside, as it's also a lot easier to deal with Amazon ordering & returns, than it is to deal with each and every individual company's ordering and returns policies.
