Yes, modern kit is more important than rifles, agree. That said I would not hold it as a general rule that conscripts and professional armies necessarily would

Yes, modern kit is more important than rifles, agree. That said I would not hold it as a general rule that conscripts and professional armies necessarily would have quality difference if the equipment is the same. Finland has a pretty good conscript army even according to the professional Nato troops who train with them, so I would not discount effectiveness of conscript armies out of hand. Of course, it's the quality of training that matters, and that may be harder to institute on a national scale unless there is a long continous tradition of doing that. Also to my understanding current Ukrainian army is holding it's own with a mostly conscript force (unless I'm mistaken) against a professional army (yes, on paper...).