Aircraft manufacturers and their reputations

What are the overall reputations of manufacturers like Cessna,
Raytheon Beechcraft, Piper, Mooney, Cirrus, and all the others?

In every domain, there are usually specific legends and/or realities
associated with particular manufacturers' equipment. What are they in
general aviation?

From what I've read here, Beech is considered a bit hoity-toity,
Cessna is a common workhorse of sorts, Mooney is a case apart that
some love and some hate, and ... I'm not sure for the others.

I bring this up because of the occasional references I see along these
lines, implying that a Baron 58 is a Cadillac or that Mooney aircraft
have bizarre minds of their own. It makes me wonder. I'm sure each
manufacturer must have a bit of "personality" that shows through each
of the aircraft it builds.

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