Yes, magnification isn't everything. When you dial out to 18 or 20x, you'll begin to see your "heartbeat", if you catch my drift. When you start getting up to 20x and beyond magnification, "affordable" scopes might not cut the mustard, leaving you dialed down in the affordable range. Quality of optics at that magnification equals money. Anybody can build an affordable 24x scope, for example, but not many would be happy when dialed up with that scope.
My Nikkon doesn;t have hollow dots - they're solid. I was just shooting it today with some 60gr Bergers. Hmmmm....now you got me wanting to pull that rifle and check the dots!
I really appreciate the Nikkon's tall turrets, and it comes with tactical screw-ons (which I haven;t used). When you unscrew the turret caps, your incremental markings and direction of adjustment faces you, so you can do it all with the rifle still shouldered and with your fingers (tool-less)...for whatever that's worth. 1/4" Click adjustment too, that's become important to me recently. My Leupolds now, they don;t click and you need a screwdriver. Close attention during adjustment is required. Of course...why wouldn;t it be anyway?