Thanks again to everyone who has responded here and in direct messages to my questions. I am really trying not to make another bad investment/purchase on the CCTV front this time around.
I’m sure I’ll be back here reading and asking more once I get everything all set up.
Yes, their marketing is utter crap, and bordering heavily on fraudulent, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Their doorbell cameras are a good value, and I've been using my PTZ BeeCamera for nearly 7.5 years, although not without issues.
I've replaced a few of my Reolink turrets, but I am retaining the option to redeploy them in applications where dark vision and motion trigger aren't important, e.g. a brightly-lit interior scene where any motion trigger would have been caught by another camera already, like a hallway at the office. Waste not, want not!