Not saying that people that went the Avalon route did bad. Indeed, they did great. But both routes were untested, the outcomes unknown in 2012. As for today? What can you order from Avalon? Anything besides raw chips? And aren't those having difficulty reaching their destination (not FUD, trully sounds like that's been the case).
BFL was already four months late when I ordered my B2. They were already a failure.
Not only that, BFL is nowhere near getting to February of 2013 in their order queue, which is when B2 went on sale.
Now obviously people who ordered chips from them got completely screwed.