You may be one of the very rare examples of a DIYer who gets the horn playing well and reliably, but if not, then it does not make sense to palm the instrument off onto a string of beginners who give up playing, not knowing that the instrument is the problem, and thinking that the player is useless.
It must be in your imagination, because how far the G key opens is totally irrelevant to the pitch of F/E/D/Low C.
(Or perhaps the G key's pad was badly not sealing and something you did make it seal better???)