I own several Commanders, and have owned others. I have had good luck with several of them.
My favorite carry gun is a Colt Lightweight Commander in 45 ACP. I also have a Wiley Clap Commander and it also has an alloy frame. I also have an older Springfield GI Commander but it's not a true commander as it has a 4" barrel and different springs and guts in it, as opposed to a True Colt Commander. It's a good gun but I don't like it as well as the Colts.
I also have a steel frame Colt Commander of fairly recent vintage. It's also a fine gun, but I don't carry it much because I prefer the lighter Lightweight Commanders for CCW.
I am left handed so I had to install ambi-safeties on all of these guns. I have had some Kimbers, even, that were good shooters, but I don't really like all of the MIM parts that the Kimber's come with, but they can be good guns, if you can work on them.
I will just say this, my favorite Commanders are Colts. But I always end up changing out several parts on them, before I am completely happy. Safeties of course, and also I always go to an arched mainspring housing, and a short trigger, but that is personal preferences.
The Colts of 3 to 5 years ago or so, have been some of the best and most most reliable out of the box Colts I have owned, and I have been shooting Colts for 40 years. But some Colts in the past have needed a little help, before I would trust them. I never liked the 1991's and some of that era. And many of the older Colts would not feed hollowpoints out of the box.But Colt raised their game, a few years ago. They had to, because some of the other manufactures raised the bar on them.
My current Commanders are all 5 or 6 years old now, or maybe slightly older and were very good guns out of the box. I can't really say now on the current crop as I have not needed to buy one in few years.