"I'm just a dumb hick in a cow hat", and nowhere near as knowledgeable as most everybody on this board; and I guess I'm missing the point of all of this.
But I can tell you one thing...
3-4 years ago, my brother ("Don Coyote" for you SASS folks) gave my son Matt a " '51 Navy .44 cal 'Sheriff's Model' " (with 5-1/2" barrel) that his wife ("Squeaky Hare") had won at a match someplace. He knew but didn't care that it was not "period correct", didn't care about the "Confederate" brass frame; didn't care whether or not it had been even a fragment of a dream of some barrel maker in Hartford 150 years ago or just an Italian guy's idea for putting more lira in his pocket. And he D@mn sure didn't care if there's an EMF stamped on the stocks and a typical Pietta 'Billboard' down the right-hand side of the barrel!
All he cares about is that he can load a trimmed-down .38 Spcl case with powder (and he doesn't even mind if it's Pyrodex), dump it down a chamber, follow it up with a Wonder Wad and a .451 ball.... and make smoke and noise and a big hole in a target.
The kid went nuts over it; and another BP lover was born right there.
He's 18 now, just graduated from High School. He's been saving up for another BP revolver; but it's slow going, what with the typical expenses of his age - maintaining a pickup truck that's 5 years older than him, college textbooks; and of course, the greatest financial drain for male of his age, a girlfriend. (Although she has a job of her own and and can cover much of her own expenses, "a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do"; and he has to make a lot of pizzas to cover his necessities.)
Guess what? He's been sending lead downrange with that "fake everything" revolver, as well as with my "period incorrect" Pietta NMA's; since I have been inundated with work and a little health issue my wife is having with one of her hips.
So here we have another 'youngster' that's enjoying BP the best he can; while a bunch of us turn curmudgeon about a revolver that doesn't exist. Except that it does exist, if for no other reason than some company builds it; and some "historically ignorant" people buy it.
The real problem with this is?