Quality/Consistency within Marcas

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I'm curious what peoples experiences are regarding the general level of quality and consistency within specific marcas over the last five years.

Which marcas have the highest percentage of very good to great boxes?

Which marcas produce the poorest quality boxes overall?

Which marcas are most consistant?

In my experience, Partagas seems to have pretty consistant good quality boxes. A few are excellent, most are good to very good. Punch on the other hand, seems to be pretty bad as of late. I think an excellent box of Punch is pretty hard to come by (some of the smaller marcas are probably worse, but I just haven't seen enough boxes of any one of them to really comment). Same goes for RyJ. Montecristo and Cohiba seem to run the whole spectrum...some very good to excellent boxes, some ok to mediocre boxes, and some boxes that are total rubbish.

For those that have been around for a while, how has this changed over the last 20+years? Were today's mediocre marcas really "on" during different time periods, or have some marcas just been consistently neglected?