When they work these are great switches, but they have a WILD failure rate.
I built out a Drop Shift kb with these and enjoyed the hell out of it until the switches started dying: double clicks or non registering strokes. I've slowly replaced them as they've died, and now after ~2 years I have 2 full 35 packs of bad switches.
At the end of the day, it's a good experience until it's not... And then it's awful. Nothing breaks your flow worse than all of a sudden not being able to trust your interface.
These are solid tactile switches, and very smooth. Good tactile feeling but not too firm. Muted, thocky sound but still appropriate to use in the office. I feel more productive somehow using these switches lol :)
So I got a free pack of these during the 12 days of Christmas, and even after spring swapping and lubing, I had to lube the leaf of each switch to eliminate the leaf tick. Apart from that, and the fact that leaf tick was only noticeable (before me lubing the leaves) at ear height and not necessarily in a board and normal distance between board and ears, I wouldn't be... against buying them stock? But nowadays, switches have come a long way, and it's difficult for me to want to spend more than .50 cents per switch, regardless of how good they are.
Free is another situation altogether (free + shipping), as they're worth it then haha.
The switch is ok if it's your first tactile. for me it's a bit too heavy and I found it widened the stem of some of my aluminium keycaps which is why I don't want to risk using them anymore. Now that could be because the stem of those keycaps weren't the right size. I just don't want to risk it on my favourite keycaps (Cat cyberspace).
Current switch that I'm using is Akko purples, they are so good it's just hard to describe. It's an End Game level switch combined with my utterly brilliant Cat Cyberspace keycaps.