I will stick up for the Hi Point, to a degree. Having owned one, my wife insisted on one for her first personal long arm, I can say that it was a shooter. It ate everything we put in it, was accurate as she was with it, and ran when it was filthy. She had the forgrip and a laser and light setup on the rails. The hand to fist reload was very intuitive and worked well for her being her first semi auto firearm.
Perhaps one of its biggest fault was what doomed it eventually, it was HEAVY. Eventually she gave it to my nephew who with 7 kids, gladly added it to his home defence along with a Makarov I gave him.
First choice for me, nope, likely not in the running at all, but... if I had 7 kids and a wife who works from home grading school work on the side, well I would take one and feel lucky I had something reliable.
I do know he shoots it, at least to a degree, he burned thru the 1k rounds I gave with it and asks for more for birthdays and Christmas'
Opps forgot the new baby, 8 kids, 3 his, 4 hers, 1 thiers... lord knows why they needed one more but there it is.