By your standard consumer could never talk about any potential reliability issues in any products.
I was shopping a few years ago for a cargo van for work. Looked at Ford Transit. Did some research and saw people raising concerns about a flexible coupler used to reduce engine vibration transmission to the chassis. Posters contented that this would be a failure point. Some protested like you saying the same was used in BMW cars and there were no issues with them.
Fast forward a few days later and I am at the dealer looking at their new Transits. I see this odd sticker on a bunch of these saying "not to be sold." I go and do some research and find this:
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As a result, Ford had instructed their dealers to not sell any new products on the lot until they had fixed this. And due to shortage of parts, they could not do this repair quickly.
Bottom line, we have the wisdom of repair and engineering community on what could be weak points in a design. Absence of any reliability data from the manufacturer available to us, this is all we have to go by. Company should be aware that in this day and age, such analysis will occur. And some sales lost as a result of it. They can either use better quality parts, or present us hard data to show the current parts are fine. Better yet, provide a warranty that this part will not be a failure point for a much longer period than the standard warranty. Emission control devices in cars in US have such extended warranty for example (by law I believe).
In no way is it proper to ask for such discussions to not occur. We as a forum are a consumer protection entity, not manufacturer. Any beef you have with us in this regard, is a beef you have with our entire mission.
Personally I remember being shocked the first time I did a teardown on Hypex amp (NC400) and finding these lower grade caps. I consider these amps the best of the best in technical performance. I like to see best of the best in part selection. While it is easy for us to see choices made in capacitors, what have they done in selection of others?