I'm not so sure. My load-all II seems to be getting more and more use, which is why I'm trying to fix the MEC. The Lee is a fully functional press, albeit limited in heavy duty use. The de-prime is better than MEC, the priming is about equal, but Lee has the 600jr. beat in resizing 10 times over. The 600jr. "works" on target hulls, while scratching them up, but is totally useless on any kind of taller brass. The de-priming is a PITA. It's possibly connected to my misalignment problems, but I always had to push the shell back and to the right perfectly for the primer to pop out. I hated buying charge bars, so I bought the universal bar. It meters small amounts of shot ok (over 1 1/4 oz bridges and makes a mess), but powder doesn't measure accurately at all. I either use my powder measure or lee scoops. The load-all bushings, while not always dropping what they say, are acceptably accurate, and work. Guys always rag on the crimping. Well I've loaded a bunch of 12ga on my load-all and it works. It's not a very deep crimp, but it beats what my MEC is doing now. I've been loading all my 16 gauge ammo on the Lee, and it does good on that too. This is not a pro-Lee, anti-MEC thing. It has just been my experience that people see the 600 jr. as a step above the load-all II, and I see them as equals. The Lee just plain works, and while the MEC can provide tighter crimps, IMHO, it is not fully functioning out of the box. I don't think I was even 16 when I got this MEC, and it wasn't much longer that I bought a Supersizer to go with it, and a universal charge bar, and a powder measure, etc...