There's been many instances of the rooted hair looking like complete crap and much worse than the sculpted.
When done properly, the rooted is superior, but that's been vey far from 100% of the time. There's been length issues, volume issues, product/gel issues, styling issues, etc. Some of them look so bad when people post pictures, I'd quit the hobby outright if I spent $500 and got one of those.
At this point I think we need to stop with the hair discourse, it's old and we've gone around in circles so many times in this thread. At the end of the day I think we can all agree that the rooted is better than the sculpted when it's done correctly, but the sculpted is the safer purchase given how many of these came out.