Llama autos are either sworn by or at by their owners. Llama semi-autos are a decent product for some of their brands. And there are users who will say that they have decent service from them. Kind of a get no respect kind of thing. Star and Llama get dumped on a lot, but do not deserve the criticism necessarily.
Spanish guns recieved a bad rep. This is due in part because during the early twentith century Spain gun makers did make copies or original design guns that were of poor quality in large numbers. There were decent Spanish designs to be sure, but there were also many poorly made or poor designs that got the bad rep started. After World War II or there abouts, Star and Llama started putting out good guns and were known for this. Fit and finish a times were rough or not compareable to other brands here in the states or elsewhere. But there are guns( Star BDM and some Llama 1911s) that garner laurels from gun writers that are into collecting or who are well known for their extensive knowledge and use of most ,if not all the worlds makes and models.
So like Taurus, Ruger, Kel-tec, Hi-point, and several other brands, these have a lot of prejudice and hurdles to overcome. As has been posted at this forum before, "Conventional Wisdom" is not alway wise.
Some of the early revolvers in the late 1960s and early 1970s actually were made decent and were gained good reports from the press with data to back up their claims. That kind of quality has not been maintained since then.