I have a bullion gold 2014 EB. I am very happy with mine.
Good stuff:everything is well screwed together, fret work is good, nice satin finish on the back of the neck, good sound, coil split does make a tonal variation worth being there, it's pretty light, ergonomically sound, electronics fine - no problems here with pots or jack. I don't use hard cases normally, but you do get a very nice one with it as part of the deal.
Bad stuff - the body finish is my least favourite thing about the bass, this unfilled ash thing maybe makes sense on a trans finish but on a solid colour it just looks like a rookie refinisher's mistake to me. Also the pickguard was rather squiffily cut around the pickup, hole is about 2-3mm too big in a couple of directions to the point where you can see gold body finish in the gap. Bit slack that.
One of my friends had/has one, and he was removing the knobs to get the plastic off the pickguard and he pulled the whole pot shaft out with the knob still attached. Possibly he subjected it to a force it wasn't intended to withstand, so I wouldn't necessarily say it was a dodgy pot. He ended up rewiring it.
You only ever tend to hear about the bad stuff, or cloud cuckoo land fawning praise, so hopefully I've managed to buck the trend and provide a balanced POV. I like mine, and it's not going anywhere any time soon.