Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Importing products. 3rd party or native?

I’m wondering if the magento 2 import is worth using. Back in M1 this process was just horrible and I remember only a couple thousand products taking over a half hour and then timing out partway through.

I switched to “unirgy urapidflow” and my imports only took seconds. However, now that I’m planning a move to m2, I’m wondering if the standard M2 import feature is actually worth using or if I should still consider a third party solution (if so which third party)… I was originally thinking of unirgy again but I think the company might be dead as they don’t answer emails.

I want to be able to import products, tier prices, stock status. One nice thing about the urapidflow product was the ability to autocreate missing attribute values.

I appreciate all your advice and comments regarding your experience with m2 import/export or third party options. Thanks!