so ive been going back and forth on this for like two months now and cant really make up my mind. basically i want something i can just grab and fly without spending a weekend tuning PIDs every time i change a prop. currently running a nazgul evoque f5 and i love it but its been giving me gyro noise issues since i reflashed betaflight and honestly im just tired of debugging it every few weeks.

the avata 2 seems like the obvious answer for the "just fly" factor but a few guys at my local club swear its not really a freestyle machine, more of a cinematic cruiser. and i get that, the prop guards and all that. but the stabilization is genuinely impressive for the price. has anyone actually pushed one through proper freestyle gaps and tight lines or is everyone just doing smooth cinewhoops with it

also wondering if something like the geprc cinelog or the flywoo explorer might split the difference better. not opposed to betaflight but i just dont want to be elbow deep in rpm filter configs on a weekend i actually have time to fly

honest take from someone who owned both at the same time for about three months ? the avata 2 is not a freestyle drone. like it will do rolls and loops but theres this latency in the stick response that you just feel, even in manual mode its not the same as a properly tuned 5 inch. its great for what it is, filming stuff, carrying it in a backpack, not terrifying non-drone people when you fly near them. but if youre coming from a nazgul evoque you're gonna feel the difference immediately and probably be annoyed by it.

the geprc cinelog 25 is actually closer to what youre describing. small, relatively tune-friendly out of the box, and the blackbox data on mine was clean enough that i barely touched it after initial binding. if youre okay going down to a 2.5 or 3 inch that might actually be your answer.

the gyro noise thing on the evoque after a betaflight flash ? did you redo your rpm filter notches? because i had the exact same problem when i jumped from 4.3 to 4.5 and it turned out my dynamic idle was set way too low and was causing all kinds of weird harmonic stuff in the logs. took me like two flights with blackbox to spot it but once i fixed the dynamic idle and reran the rpm filter it was buttery. might be worth checking before you swap platforms entirely