The G14 is proving to be very satisfying to use the more and more I use it. Between my previous MSI GS65 (2017 model) and Razer Blade 15 (mid-2019 -- RTX 2070 and 240Hz refresh screen), I ran into a lot of compromises and issues that ultimately made both of them kind of questionable to me. With the MSI GS65, the fan noise made an annoying high pitched noise, the screen was dim and only 60Hz (even though many competitors at similar pricepoints at the time had Gsync monitors) and the speakers were bad that they simply couldn't contend with the fan noise. The Razer was extremely good for the most part but I wasn't a fan of the way the keyboard felt and lack of VRR was kind of annoying since I could constantly see screen tearing -- to its credit, screen tearing at 240Hz is less perceptible than it is at 60Hz (at least to my eye) as there's kind of a "brute force" effect where it is more mitigated, but I could still spot it in some games. Also, the Razer was expensive -- it was an absolutely killer machine but the price didn't feel quite justified, so I took it back.
The G14, on the other hand -- great feeling keyboard (very poor backlighting though, but a very minor issue to me on a laptop); great monitor with good brightness, color gamut, and FreeSync (I have noted that other reviews report a poor response time that results in ghosting but that hasn't felt like a thing to me -- I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I am just not perceiving it to any great degree); and the speakers are good enough to actually contend with the inevitable fan noise and while those fans are indeed quite loud, I find that they don't make any sort of high pitched noise that grates me, they just sound like really solid "blowers," and I hope this doesn't change with time because it's the most tolerable fan noise pitch (or lack of a pitch) I've ever experienced from a gaming device. The fans go hard but they don't sound like jet engines. Performance is also great at this price point -- the AMD CPU is absolutely KILLER performance, and the 2060 Max-Q drives the 1080p experience really solid.
As far as criticism goes, I can only think that the keyboard backlighting sucks (very minor issue); the fingerprint reader doesn't do its fingerprint cache party trick on bootup more often than not (and then it works perfectly fine once it reaches the Windows login screen, I find); and the keyboard lacks a numpad, which makes sense given the 14" form factor, but it is causing me to have to rethink my usual MMORPG (Final Fantasy XIV) keybindings as I used to rely on it a lot for MMOs -- no other genre is yet affected by its absence, though.
Having a great screen with variable refresh rate (FreeSync), good speakers that do a decent job working within the loud fan noise environment that comes with every thin-and-light gaming laptop, what I think is a really good-feeling keyboard for gaming, and of course some really good performance, all for just 1450 (I actually only paid $1300 because of my annual birthday coupon from Best Buy membership!), and I'm feeling really satisfied. It's the least I've paid for a gaming laptop thus far and overall the best experience in using one. I find it astonishing that as a product that's the first of its kind in a few ways (particularly in that it features the new mobile AMD CPU), it's THIS good and sells for this good of a relative bargain, even before my birthday discount kicked in.
It is worth noting that I am treating this as a dedicated gaming device and will not be using it as a main computer. Other reviewers have noted with high praise that it can get very good battery life off of the charger, but I have another computer I use as my "main" computing device for all other tasks, so I can't remark on that, but that's something else to consider for prospective buyers -- apparently this laptop can last a good long while on its battery when you're just doing basic everyday computing. I am literally treating this like it is exclusively a portable gaming device (ala a Switch, albeit not quite as portable), so battery life doesn't apply to me personally.