^Exactly. + These are pants that are meant to be used for "commuting" as their name would suggest. I really don't see these holding up for a long time

I do like the high waist and the reinforced crotch but I'm not sure that justifies them being 2x the price of a normal pair of Levis. If you're counting on the reflectors to save your ass, you're already in trouble, that's just 10 cents of material they're using in order to add another 'feature' to it