After pulling a few shots with it I can say for sure I'm still on the lookout for a commercial sized 1-group lever machine. This one is OK for the short term, but it's not built to the standards I'm used to seeing in the big boy toys.
You are talking about two different things.
The fit and finish of the PVL is crude at best but you saw that before pulling any shots. I don't understand what you learned from pulling ~10 shots with it that made you think it was "ok in the short term but not built to the standards of the big boy toys".
Like the known fit and finish shortcomings the PVL is the same as
any home machine vs commercial machine...decidedly they are not commercial machines. They are considerably smaller.
The thing to learn from pulling shots (many more than a days worth) is what type of shot quality you can get from the machine not the build quality vs a commercial machine quadruple its weight.
Otherwise you set yourself up for failure before unpacking the box. It was never going to be a commercial machine in size, weight, robust build....