I am the exact same way. If I have to work on it, only to get it to function, the trust is already gone, and it ends up going nowhere, and then sold. Which is why I do not mess with copies of 1911s or Glocks or Winchesters or Marlins or etc etc etc. No reverse engineering outfit will ever understand what decades of experience and proprietary drawings and specs will get you, nor the WHY.

But, I do not exactly consider swapping mags from the same maker to be work, not when obvious to anyone familiar with 1911s that the all-purpose supplied mag not worth beans with ball. NO gun can be designed to shoot any length, weight, velocity, shape bullet or ammo in any given cartridge. Makers must compromise somewhere. My bad luck my favorite ammo not working in the compromise magazine. I even wasted money initially ordering 4 new OEM marked mags, and they did exact same thing, not an insignificant amount of money flushed to duplicate same problem, a magazine supplier problem, and maker prospective audience problem. And they and Checkmate heard about it, too. Nothing will happen, as the mags geared towards lighter HPs, where they probably shine, and probably what most buyers run out and buy, the latest wonderbullet, and all they shoot in very limited shooting, at all.

But, same could happen with any gun, your choice of ammo a bad match to platform or magazine, and, with the 1911, you can get alternatives. See what searching for wadcutter or ball specific magazines for a Glock or Springfield XD gets you, magazines which just might feed that favorite new extra wide maw wonder bullet with mini chainsaws and half the weight of original ammo while going twice as fast.