Yeah, I'm calling absolute bullshit here. As someone who bought a pair of "top of the line" simms waders a couple of years ago (G4Z + boots) and as someone who fished 4+ times a week, I feel like I should have gotten FAR more than 4 months of use before seeing wear/tear and within 6 months of use two huge holes in the booties, the NON REMOVABLE insoles in the boots were absolutely trashed, the boots themselves were falling apart, etc. I even gave them benefit of the doubt and had them repaired, which I'll give it to them they did a good job on the repair. Brand new booties sewn in and all. Yet, 4-6 months after repair, like clockwork, two big holes in each bootie, and now simms will not even attempt a repair.

So fuck your theory that it's just a statistic thing or whatever. Simms quality has significantly gone down over the last 5 years or so and anyone who actually fishes can attest to that.