Oh well.....

I can understand your sentiment and hope you find something that pleases you.
Having said that, this entire situation sucks because I think it was all caused by lawyers.
My Taurus is on the recall list. It has been perfect in over 1500 rounds. Not one darn malfunction.
They aren't getting it.
As I understand it this all started with a cop who dropped his gun. Well, don't drop your gun you idiot.
Then I can imagine Mr. Cop got a lawyer because dropping his gun wasn't his fault of course.
Taurus has spent so much time and money in the court system I am surprised they are still open.
That's the way it works. Someone screws up, blames the product, gets a lawyer and off we go again.
I cannot imagine how busy Taurus is trying to keep up with this mess. Their phone lines must be smoking.
Did Taurus mess up? I don't know. At this point I don't care any longer.
The legal system has twisted the situation into an unrecognizable can of worms that has almost paralyzed the company.
I like my Taurus. I will keep it and shoot it and carry it.
I will wait until this farce of a court system gets through with messing with them and see how they recover.
If they do recover I will buy another Taurus.
If they don't I won't be able to but then the courts have won.
Doncha just love the system?

This entire situation was caused by people who made warnings like this necessary.........

I felt like that too when I had issues with my 605. The customer service rep has their hands tied, just remember that first and foremost. Then remember that they've probably taken a million phone calls and have had to talk to angry people all day. Reading from the script is probably the best defensive mechanism they have. Anything on your pistol that has to do with firing or fire controls will require being sent back to Taurus due to the big lawsuit. Why they can't have people just sign a waiver to buy spares is beyond me.

Fast forward a few months, I'm at the range with my 605 and killing paper pretty damned good at 15 yards with a snub nose and hot .357 rounds.

I don't blame your line of reasoning. Being unable to obtain simple parts is a big deal. But the price point and the fact they will fix it for free (albeit after a few months) is tolerable to me because I like many other people on here on plenty of other guns.

My EDC is a Glock 26 and I've put thousands and thousands of rounds through Glocks so if one pistol is getting fixd it doesn't hurt my feelings. If I had to own one Taurus pistol I would say it would be the PT-111 G2 (or a .454 Raging Bull, yes dichotomies and all that), however, even on here there are reports of those having issues. There are also reports of Glocks having issues, various makes and models of 1911's, and yes even the venerable Smith and Wesson company has pushed out some bad products. If somebody told me I could only own one pistol for the rest of my days I would probably reach for a GP-100, but I gurantee there's somebody out there who has had problems with them too.

And if you think Taurus is the only company that's made a pistol that drop fires, look no further than Sig Sauer. Hell, one of the biggest names in the game with pistols that cost x4 to x5 as much that drop fire.

As with all mechanical devices YMMV.