Autopal e codes are not made in China. I've owned plenty of 740s with quad squares and have never had any issues with headlight wiring. Your thinking of 240s which do consistently have issues with headlight wiring.
You also assume that the op has an unlimited budget. The autopal e codes will work for most who want an improvement without breaking the bank.
India, China, they're both terrible.
I've had five quad square 740s, and all of them had terrible headlight wiring... Headlight relays, on the other hand, are something the 740 crowd doesn't have as a worry, unlike the 240s... Anyway, I've run Hella, Autopal and Cibie H4 housings between those five quad square 740s and the three quad square 240s I've had, and the Cibies are really the only ones worth spending good money on. On my stock 740s, I was getting ~11.8v at the lights instead of 14.4 with a relay harness.
If it were /my/ car, and I were messing with a safety-related system, which lighting is... Here's my ranked list of options.
1 - JW Speaker LED - By far, the best. No headlight wiring upgrade needed.
2 - Truck-Lite LED - Still impressively good. See above about not needing to upgrade the headlight wiring.
3 - Bosch DE outers/Cibie or Bosch H1 inners with Philips XtremeVision H1s and a wiring upgrade - Rare, hard to find, but modern halogen projector.
4 - OEM Volvo E-Codes with good Philips bulbs and a wiring upgrade.
5 - Cibie or Bosch H4 outer/Cibie or Bosch H1 inner. Philips XtremeVision or Osram Nightbreaker in all four, with a good wiring upgrade.
6 - Hella H4/H1 quad combo with the aforementioned Philips bulbs and a wiring upgrade.
7 - Sylvania XtraVision sealed beams with a wiring upgrade.
8 - Crush your 740 and get a 240, upgrade the 240 with proper lighting.
9 - Autopal "E-codes"