I get where you're coming from, and I understand that you're talking about the stem, but the whole "everything else sucks, that means this does too" goes for a lot, not just bike parts. Thats why I'm making this argument. And yes I do realize that bike parts are supposed to break/fail. I've had plenty of that happen too. I just know that a lot of people who ran Snafu parts had them fail worse or sooner than they should have.