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They are quite variable. Many are great and folk have no issues apart from the total shit kick stands they ship with (the newer hd kickstand that tern made customers pay extra for works for about a month in winter and will then seize, keep it greased and will work very well though). Others have issues like brake mounts not welded on straight, no amount of facing will bring them back, headset bearing recess not straight so steering has an eccentric tolerance (wrong term but you get the picture). Creaky bar adjuster (grease, grease all the things, from day zero).
Ua are similar, you get mostly good ones (now) and folk love them, but still the odd absolute clanger that should never have left the factory**goes for all bike brands, had a customer in today with a regular hybrid arrived yesterday from an online retailer, someone had tried to rectify the world's most hilariously badly welded on disc mount by using bolts bent in a vice, v brake convex /concave bits and a ball bearing greased into a dropout in a mental attempt to mask the problem so that the customer wouldn't notice. Erm, they did, I did and probably a solicitor will along the way, worst cover up I've ever seen (not a cargo, but it reminded me of how early ua would arrive).
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yes this, all bikes unless REALLY big brand popular bikes come with these sort of issues. I built an omnium with @cake once and the design for cable routing was shambles.
I cannot advise against Tern enough, but I sadly have no personal experience with Omnium.