I still gotta couple pairs of 00s dunks at the house. My true blue dunks is beater status, but it ain't nothing wrong with them outside of being dirty. I never had problems with paint on the soles back then. I'm not talking about the leather quality, I'm talking the quality overall. And it's Nike period. I done bought jays and forces with hella imperfections over the past year. These shyts should not be passing QC.I have since 99/00 so you should know what I mean....Mid 2000 non SB were significantly worse than 2020s. The Jordan Dunks we're made with fukkin cardboard. Leather quality was disgustingly bad for all dunks other than Nike SB THEN. B grade dunks were so prevalent people just waited for them to hit outlets, even SBs for that. Not even gonna mention Journeys / Pac Sun dunks and 6.0s which were absolutely terrible quality.
Today's GR (as general as those releases get) dunks are better quality than mid 00s for sure.