I've got no beef with the AK because I want one myself, I was just talking about RELOADING alone, which in a perfect world, is the only thing you really have to work with in a perfect hypothetical fire fight, because there is no worry of FTF, and you certainly are not going to have to worry about cleaning it, or clearing jams, or anything else in a perfect hypothetical fight. In a real world, there are FTF, jams, and you do have to clean it after a firefight.
As long as you have good mags, you clean the firearm and mags, and don't get mud or dust in the breach or mags, FTF, jams, and the like are not going to be as common as to make a huge difference in the firefight. However, I think speed and quickness and ease of reload is an advantage.