i guess nike found the bad in it too, that's why black got pulled from the options for the second time around.
people are entitled to like what they want, but if you seriously think a quick spray paint over the toe box is acceptable then you're delusional.
these are quality control issues that need to be addressed and not praised. for $250 they are being extremely lazy. their flyknit machines can probably produce an upper pretty quickly (i'm speculating but if you have the settings in, you just need to get the thread ready). would it be that difficult for them to swap out the grey flyknit with a black/coloured flyknit and make the shoe to order like it has been in the past? no it wouldn't, but it's definitely easier to mass produce grey flknit and paint it to go and basically deceive people.
when we had ID's in the past, the materials were never dyed, painted, etc. you had your material cut into what it needed to be AND nikeid's were $100 less than they are today.
for a billion dollar company, this is unacceptable and that's why i refuse to buy the shoes at full price and find discount codes.