Is there a better endpoint management system than KACE / k1000 SMA?

I've been looking at other endpoint management systems, but nothing so far has come close to what the good ol' KACE SMA can do. Recently, I have tried Intune (which is several orders of magnitude more expensive and worse in many regards) and PDQ Deploy which is way too basic.

KACE has the ultimate in reporting. You can literally craft a report with SQL that gives you whatever info you want and download it or have it emailed to you on a recurring basis.

You can easily push a batch or PowerShell script to devices, and you can craft task chains that run differently depending on the output of scripts so that you can account for any situation, create custom schedules (and use cron syntax if you need a more specific schedule). and it's FAST. no needing to package crap into an .intunewin file and deploy win32 apps and all that hot garbage like you have to do with intune.

Your devices check in at a rate of YOUR choosing rather than whenever the hell they decide to check in with other systems. You can create custom SQL labels to group devices based on any attribute you want. Want to include only Windows 10 22H1 devices that have a specific file version of software xyz? bam easy. Want to see all devices that currently have a running process called 'notepad.exe'? bam, fast. You can push files to a location of your choosing to a group of devices. IE if you want to create a safe senders list for Outlook and then use Group Policy to call on that safe senders list to make sure specific senders dont go to junk for your users. You can integrate with AD easily.

AND, it's SUPER cheap. like <$15k a year. Intune would be >$200,000 in our environment. My only gripe is around Windows Patching - I wish it could do something similar to the built-in Windows Update notification where it says something along the lines, "You can restart now, or schedule the update at a specific time of your choosing" & lets you select a date and specific time the patches will be installed WITHIN a deadline. KACE has something similar with the 'on demand deploy' but users can delay that indefinitely. We currently let users snooze their updates up to 4 times before it force-installs and reboots, but I still wish we could leverage Microsoft's method

Someone show me something better!