Good points. To be fair though, there is a lot of that sort of exaggerated reputation with Azov as well. They have a lot of fancy expensive gear and their commanders get treated as celebrities around the world but they generally stay away from actual fighting and prefer acting as barrier troops for the conscripts.

In the battle of Avdeyevka they ran away without orders when the Russians were closing in too fast and left the conscripts to slow the Russians down. In Mariupol they spent weeks holed up under ground in the industrial zone crying and begging to everyone around the world to tell the Russians to let them go. The Kiev regime always prioritizes them for prisoner exchanges. They seem most comfortable when they get to do war crimes, torturing and killing unarmed people, most of the time fellow Ukrainians.