The plastic aiming/spotting scope is flexible to the point of being useless.
Green laser FTW. And/or mount some cheap Picatinny rail and get a red dot made for .22s.
And the German EQ mount and tripod are pure chinesium.
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/117633-stiffening-an-aluminum-tripod/#entry1543311Get the tripod solid, and Celestron's equatorials aren't half bad. I've got some 30 minute exposures done with a piggybacked DSLR using their cheap clock drive that came out excellent. Even a couple with a 300mm zoom that had negligible shake and drag, though the 50mm f/1.7 was amazing for light gathering ability.
For cheap refractors, there's a post somewhere on CloudyNights about building a wooden tripod and mount that makes even the department store junk pretty usable. I may still have one that I built for a $5 garage sale 50mm that actually made it worth carrying out to the field. If you put the pivot point right around the eye level of the shortest person using it, it's a lot easier to use too.
And here's a 76mm reflector with a tabletop mount for $50:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Celestron-21024-FirstScope-Telescope/117145731.25" focuser, so finding quality eyepieces and camera mounts is a lot easier than the tiny department store ones, too. Tabletop mounts are, of course, only practical if you have somewhere to put them, but a relatively level car hood will work, and not depending on spindly aluminum legs removes the biggest issue of cheap scopes.
Heck, for that matter, if you run across a good price on a mirror blank and primary cell, the focuser and secondary mount are probably good for building a much larger scope.