Is there such thing as a good lifter?

Hyd lifters & noisy hyd roller lifters. H-D introduced the hyd lifter about 1948-49. You can imagine how light the valve spring tension was back then.
The hyd mechanism worked fine with FT cams because they had limited lift & aggression. Roller lobes are more aggressive & have more lift; that requires more spring pressure. The same hyd mechanism that is in the FT lifter is in the roller lifter. No wonder they fail, they are simply inadequate for the load. Bandaid fixes like tightening internal clearances to work with increased spring pressure reduce bleed down just introduces new problems: smallest piece of debris will jam the lifter. Then there is the pressure angle problem that only roller lifters have; this can distort the body, cause internal leakage & bleed down.
So I use sol lifters....