You may have some valid experiences but your approach is rubbing people up the wrong way. Sweeping generalisations like:
"it is well known that most things italian are a bit on the shoddy side."
are hardly likely to gain you friends on an Italian car forum, surely you must understand this.
As we are expected to take on board your opinions, you should also be able to do the same in return.
it clearly has rubbed some people up the wrong way, but telling people something they dont want to hear generally does.
italian things are generally poorly made. i also have an aprilia motorbike and i have just finished replacing an italian made high level probe at work https://camlogic.it/en/products/detail/pfg05_46. when compared to other brands, its just not quite as good quality. i have been in engineering for almost 20 years so have lots of first hand experience of this.
i am happy to take on peoples opinions, what bothers me is when i am told my opinions are not fact whereas other peoples opinions are fine to be treated as fact.