The stigma with clones is not that there clones, It's that they are cheaper than the original and made in China. Some people don't like to accept that something can be good quality and cheap, And how some look at the stuff made in China now as cheap tat, Many of us older members looked at the stuff coming out of Japan in the same way not to many years ago.
I'll give a few examples, Take the KM Clone, Looked so well upon now that it is getting recommended in forums, and RC ModelZ can put the price up 50 Quid across the board and still sell them, Also from a few years ago we have the Acme NB16, Put me right if I'm wrong, but they pretty much invented small scale cars with that thing, to the point you couldn't get one for love nor money and they were well respected.
Then we have the Hobbywing Brushless Combo, The cheap setup on Fleabay that can't be any good because it's to cheap to be true and made in China, How little we know, And to finish of we have, And I quote