Is a £35 pourover kettle any good? (DMD collective gooseneck kettle)

I wanted to get a gooseneck pouring kettle for making coffee, and a friend recommended me a cheap one from a brand called DMD collective. I was suspicious of how cheap it was for the features it had, but picked one up anyway.

a gooseneck kettle on a countertop

my first time using it, I was very impressed. It pours very well, the temperature control seems pretty accurate, and the user experience is not bad. It has some idiosyncrasies - the temperature control only operates in increments of 5 degrees, but it also has some pre-set options like 91 and 96 degrees, specifically for coffee. the pot feels cheaply built, the lid does not fit perfectly, but it also doesn't feel like it will break. Putting the pot on the base can take a few tries, because it does not fit perfectly, and all of these things are not great but they are not deal-breakers for me.

It has one huge problem though - it boils so, so slowly. really slowly, slower than a pan of water on the stove. when we first got it we were planning to use it as a main kettle, but it is just too slow to boil more than one cup's worth of water that it gets painful. The "fast boil" that it advertises is false. I can't overstate how slow this thing is. We have had to keep a jug kettle around, just because it actually boils in a decent time.

So, is it good? Not really. You get what you pay for, and it really feels like it is a cheap thing, especially with the boil speed being so bad. Good enough for me to keep mine, not good enough to recommend.