Might just be really bad luck - I don’t own one but as far as I can tell the Albion caps are made by the same Italian factory as 95% of poly/cotton caps on the market
I’d be surprised if this is true as the cut is different to the average cap on the market (Prendas, Condor, etc). Albion is deeper cut, less aggressive elastic and good luft.
They (Apis) do 4 or 5 sewing patterns iirc - personally I always go for the one that has a central longitudinal strip rather than the orange segments-type one as per Albion (forgive the strange description) but have run samples in all of them at some stage. The fit differs a bit across the range.
Might just be really bad luck - I don’t own one but as far as I can tell the Albion caps are made by the same Italian factory as 95% of poly/cotton caps on the market