The SKS would be way down on my list to get - if only because they tend to be jam-o-matics with anything other than their original 10 round magazines. And forget about converting them to detachable mags, that’s jam-city too.
Look at Saiga rifles and semi shotguns.
For the longest time I thought my 30 rd mag [the one with the wierd tang on it] was the SKS 'fixed' mag cause its a slight pain to engage properly...
once i learned it was a conversion mag, and read all the poo-pooing of it, I realized that Ive never had a failure...
one lucky sob fer a change i reckon...