Lifters are toast as in what is wrong with them?

There are videos all over YouTube showing how new lifters are being sold that have not being ground correctly so you have to check the machined surface on the face of them before installing them no matter who you buy from. Most of these parts only come from a handful of places and are just put in different boxes so you may be getting the same parts no matter who you buy from. You can have old lifters resurfaced/refurbished if they are still workable. People are now sending brand new flat tappet lifters out to get the crown surface corrected, which is ridiculous to have to spend more money on a new parts, but it's either that or the lifters are not going to rotate like they are supposed to.

It's like the people that used to do this job right all retired and the new people who have taken their place are not capable of doing the same work, or they just don't know they are doing it wrong??? These big cam and lifter companies need to do something as their reputation is pretty tarnished right now. They blamed the oil for a long time, but now it's coming back around to bad machine tolerances.

This guy has several video's on lifter problems to watch. https://youtu.be/k_ExoIuTpks?si=ksdOrp06H0sS7NsK

One video I watched a different guy tested lifters from a number of vendors, and the ones that Hughes supplied had promising numbers so you could try there. The cam in a 2 barrel engine is going to be tiny with lower valve spring pressures to match so that will certainly help.