...Put it blunt, what kind of good receiver can you get for less than $200?
To put it even more blunt, "good" and $200 are mutually exclusive, when talking about HF receivers. But at that price range, you're best looking for something used, and old.
I want reception, not 5,000 options, just alpha tag, PL and 0-25mhz good reception, thx
You generally don't get alpha tags with HF receivers, certainly not "good" ones. And PL isn't used on HF at all.
My idea of "good" would concentrate on specifications like sensitivity and dynamic range, good frequency resolution and accuracy, appropriate filters for CW, AM, and SSB modes, overload immunity, and so on. You don't get that with so called 'wideband' receivers that cover HF through 1 GHz.
One thing you're going to find here asking generic questions like "what's good" is, you'll get a bewildering variety of answers. Good to me is nothing less than surplus commercial or government grade receivers. Watkins-Johnson, Racal, Mackay, Harris, etc.
Some amateur grade radios qualify as "good" or better. The Elecraft K3 fits that description.
All are well above the $200 limit. If you stick to that, I'd suggest you find something older, perhaps even with tubes in it. In my experience, the newer consumer grade receivers in that price class are junk, and not worth the money. But you'll find guys here who think they're just fine and will say they're "good". Raise the price limit to about $500 and you'll have a lot of GOOD radios to chose from.
Good luck! Shopping for radios is fun. =)