Think about the guy who buys a Jetboil, boils water twice in his kitchen, and writes a novel about how it changed his life. Then he takes it up Mount Marcy in 30 degree rain and the piezo won't spark and the canister freezes and he's back on the forum asking why his coffee's cold. Happens with tents too, and boots, and basically anything you only learn the truth about after a few seasons of abuse. A stove review shouldn't even count until the thing has been through a winter, a muddy spring, and whatever you do to it in July when you're too tired to clean it. So yeah, ask the guy who's had it for a decade and still complains about it, because that guy actually knows what he's talking about. The five star first date guys are just excited they didn't burn their hot dogs.

Watched a buddy of mine run a 2005 Mazak past 14,000 hours on the original spindle, and he swears the trick was warming it up slow every morning before he touched a single part. He finally swapped the bearings last spring, not because it failed, just because he got nervous about a big job. That thing still cuts better than his newer machine, so hours alone don't tell the whole story.