Do Eagle Creek cubes justify the price over Amazon brands like Bagail or Veken?

This is genuinely contested. Specialist communities like r/onebag generally praise Eagle Creek for lighter weight and better long-term durability, but several recent threads complain that post-2021 Eagle Creek quality has slipped, and one r/HerOneBag thread specifically called out the Eagle Creek compression cube for not fitting much more than a cheap Temu equivalent. For organization-only use, budget brands appear to perform comparably; for years of heavy travel, the premium brands still hold an edge.