You can make any AEG reliable with minimal parts swapping and investment. Actually, just opening the rifle and performing some free* maintenance mods can make a good difference. It'll probably make it perform better at the same time. You also can pour cash into countless upgrades and get a unreliable rifle that will fail you pretty quick.
They're not mutually exclusive, but they're certainly not the same thing. Someone who knows what they're doing will make any rifle reliable, upgrades or not (replacing needy parts like the OP's piston is not necessarily an upgrade in the same way that a new neo motor is). Someone who doesn't can make 200$ worth of upgrades look like a joke.
Of course, pair a good tech with good parts and you get a solid rifle.
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