>>64370021
I wouldn't paint with such a broad stroke, but I will say overall I would vastly prefer and recommend an AK built with true forged components over a "wall-hanger" built with cost cutting objectively inferior billet components.
To answer your question a bit more directly, it depends on what you mean by easily accessible, but the irony is that the VAST majority of AKs on the market EXCEPT WBP use true forgings, including most of PSA's shit AKs.
In terms of buy it now availability and cost, you can't beat a WASR honestly. Just don't be a bitch soi tranny faggot and be incapable of swapping in some nice romanian wood furniture. But honestly Zastavas are legitimately made these days, real FB Radom Circle 11 Beryl guns, Bulgarian guns etc.