PAST HABITS

Even if it's correct but it would be weird to say (A), (B) is more natural. Am I right?

(A)
1. They always used to lie to their teacher.
2. Andrew always used to joke at me.

(B)
1. They were always lying to their teacher.
2. Andrew was* always joking at me.

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@isthmus_x What would you use between A1 / B1 and A2 / B2 as a native speaker? ( I mean what is the most likely sentence to use? )

@isthmus_x
The purpose of my question is to confirm a reflection that I made after practising many exercises about different expressions of past habits:

1- We can use usually these three structures to express past habits:
Structure (1): Would always do
Structure (2): always used to do
Structure (3): present continuous + always

2- If we want to express a past habit that annoys us it’s better to use structure (3) rather than structure (1) ( it’s more accurate and expressive of how we feel). Even both could be correct grammatically speaking.

E.g. https://hinative.com/questions/22465343

I think I didn’t explain myself better in the question above.

@isthmus_x These are the types of questions that a non-native keep asking till he reaches the level where he can see things less "structured"/ "robotic" in a more pragmatic way. At that time he would express him self without sticking in every nonsensical detail and see the ideas in their whole and large image. We can't deal with a new language learner as a native one. I totally understand that you can't answer to my question, and I thank you anyway for all your answers :)