I never considered myself an AK guy, but I have always had at least 1 AK in my collection. Until very recently, all my mags were in one plastic tub and I never knew what country they came from.
That all changed last year, I really got into AKs, and that lead me naturally to being into AK mags.
I had maybe 20-30 and now have close to 300. My AK mag collection grew in a very short time and my OCD requires that I have them all stored in pouches, if possible, in a pouch made in the same country as the magazine... I have damn near every country covered...
Romanian
East German
Russian
Hungarian
Polish
Yugoslavian
Bulgarian
Chinese
Korean
Croatian (only ones I consider not worth trying)
and several USA manufactured ones as well. For some reason I must store them all in pouches too.
As far as reliability goes, if they fit in your AK, they almost certainly function. I think I have had maybe 2 or 3 not fit in all of my AKs, and I just dont use them.
When I first set out to test my AK mags, I thought I was going to need to cull out lots of them. But they all just seemed to work.
I don't subscribe to the durability torture test train of thought though. If the mags fits and functions, it is good in my book. Not planning on hard abuse on any AK mags.
Unlike with AR15 mags, and just about every other type of guns I have, Collecting the AK mags is part of the fun of collecting AK rifles. I have never really searched for AR15 mags, I just bought them and used them