Unless we are talking spicy goulash Romanian product isn't going to be better then Yugo or Serbian one.
Define better. Which is better on an AK chrome lined barrel or non-chrome lined barrel?
People seem to like the sights (and mostly they seem to like the aesthetics of them) on the PAP more. People think they look more like what Americans often call a krinkov.
If one wants to SBR the gun (and if you're not why bother with it IMHO), and isn't going to swap the rear trunion, the PAP's slanted rear trunion presents an additional issue.
The draco has a detent in it so you can simply cut the weld on the thread protector and install your favorite 14x1LH muzzle device. The Pap requires (at least all of them I saw) getting parts and installing the detent yourself.
As to the general quality. I'm not sure what folks are saying now but there were a lot of reports of things like canted sights, the fit of the top cover being significantly off. Now to be fair there were some reports of that with dracos as well. Its hard to say how prevelant issues were with either since its all anecdotal. Not that it means a whole lot but I saw more complaints about PAPs than I saw about dracos.
W/o quality muzzle break one would need to wear welders glasses to use it at night for HD.
Muzzle brakes and flash hiders are two different things. An AK with a 10.5-11.5" barrel produces a lot of flash with a bare muzzle. In my experience shooting in very low light it is enough to cause temporary night blindness after taking a shot. A muzzle brake is very very unlikely to change that and in fact will likely make it worse. The brake is also likely to make it MUCH louder to the shooters perspective and put off a lot of blast and concussion to any one around it. Different designs will obviously perform differently. Now a flash hider is designed to accomplish something different and does. In my experience a simple $9 A2 birdcage style hider will do wonders on 11.5" 7.62x39. The effects are enough to allow me to shoot it in extremely low light without any subsequent blinding. On a 7" 7.62x39 I fired in the same conditions the flash was still enough to temporarily blind me. I'd like to try something like a smith vortex which I suspect would be more effective.
There are some combo brake/hiders (brakeout, battle comp, PWS FSC, various copies of the a fore mentioned items, etc). These essay to give the benefits of brake without the draw backs of added flash and blast. I personally don't have experience on short barreled AKs with any of them so I cannot say too much. In general they are thought to be more blasty and flashy then something like an A2.
