I look at it like Great Western was a romantic, Ruger like endeavor of young up-and-comers setting out to make themselves a company in the 50's… except for the part where they mismanaged or misunderstood just about everything Bill Ruger figured out and mastered.
The revolvers were /are of exceptional build, but had a high occurrence of assembly defects. They didn't do anything as well as Ruger did, and went insolvent early. They were carried on for a few years after by various parties that tried to make a go of it.
I have a few I'd like to take out to the display circuit in a year or two, maybe the MWCA.