Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm an electrical engineering student and my school requires us to do assignments on engineering paper. Normally we buy it directly from our school, but I'm home because of COVID and ran out. I was happy to see that Amazon sells their own version now, but when it arrived I was disappointed in the quality. There are three big problems with this engineering paper pad: the grid is too faint, the binding is too strong, and the paper is thin and deforms easily. I've attached a composite of four photos I took to demonstrate the firs two problems, as well as an additional two for the third. In corner "A", you can see the grid opacity on the front side of this paper versus that which I bought from school, (brand unknown.) It was difficult to capture the difference in a photo, so I have increased the contrast of the image. The Amazon Basics paper appears to have almost no grid on the front side, and any grid that appears seems to be largely an illusion from light bleeding through the backside, which has full opacity as engineering paper is supposed to. This is contrasted with the paper purchased from my school, which has a subtle yet clear grid on the front side, even when no light shines through the paper. Again, this is not adequately represented by the photo I took due to lighting conditions. The far more aggravating flaw in this product is the binding. All engineering paper that I have purchased before this uses a flexible and waxy plastic as the binding, which is simultaneously durable and allows for clean detachment of pages. The Amazon Basics pad uses a much more stiff and unyielding plastic as the binding, which you can see in corner "B." This binding keeps the pages together but makes them nearly impossible to detach without ripping the top portion of the page as is visible in section "C." Given that the top portion of the page contains sections which are typically use for names, dates, and project information, this is a massive design flaw. I was so peeved by this that I ended up sanding most of the binding off, as you can see in corner "D." Of course, doing this eliminates the entire point of having a pad instead of just a stack of paper. While the price of the pad is very good for the number of sheets, these two flaws alone make it not worth purchasing. As icing on the cake, the paper in this pad is incredibly thin. This not only contributes to the problem of detaching pages without ripping them, but also makes anything you write on one page indent into the next two or three. The second image added to this review shows the indentation from writing with normal pressure. After writing two or three pages on one of the two Amazon Basics pads I bought, the following pages contained a ton of ugly scratches. This is a massive problem if you need to erase something or shade something in. You can see this in the third image, which shows how visible the indentation is when shaded over on the first, second, and third pages under a page that was written on. It's even worse if you have to draw on the same page something was once written and erased on. For me as an electrical engineer, the indentation isn't a massive problem, however I know that my peers in civil and mechanical engineering as well as product design would have major issues with this. Hopefully someone at Amazon reads this and either contacts their manufacturer to fix these, or changes to a different one. I usually prefer buying generic products like Amazon Basics offers, but this one completely misses the mark. I would not purchase this again.