I’m one of the folks with good experience. I recently bought a new one so I didn’t need to deal with the typeC adapter. The cost on these is about 1/10 of the Scarlett.
older gen (amazon us) - lots like this show up in a search. Favor higher bit depth (24) and higher sample rates (96kHz) to get a cable that is likely designed with some attention to performance. You don’t need to use the max perfomance when you record.
newer gen (amazon US) - this looked like really good specs, so I took a chance and got it. So far it is fine (had 1 week, in use 2 times). I needed to reduce the default gain to 50% or it was really noisy. Still plenty of level coming into Garage Band. The marketing text tells me they do not understand what they are selling, so just try to read past the silliness.
I have a little more detail here: Really need amp for beginner - #9 by sequences