BTW, if I wear out a headset bearing in under a year, I would probably get the head tube faced (if it was not already done) before spending the money on another bearing.

Even a cheap bearing should last a very long time in a properly aligned headtube, whereas the nicest bearings out there will get destroyed in sort order if the head tube is off.

The only two headset bearings I have EVER worn out were in new frames. In each case I got the head tube faced and the replacement lasted indefinitely.

Most modern non-BSO frames don’t need the head tube faced these days, but sometimes they do