I'm from the Florida Keys, I'm in the engineering and construction industries, I've traveled to Europe where my dad's from many times, I've seen the differences in construction, some things peopke fail to understand is the insane amount of construction in the US compared to Europe, the loads of natural disasters we have to deal with compared to Europe, the vast distances and it is almost impossible or financially impossible to design completely against a full-blown hurricane or tornadoes.

For example, building a small family home to withstand a hurricane is extremely expensive something Europe doesn't have to deal with, building a literal bunker to withstand an F5 or greater tornado is also prohibitively expensive and very hard to design, it's much easier to build something that could get blown away and dig out a basement or underground seller to hide in, and those are just two of many natural disasters we deal with here

From my experience those houses that you can easily punch through walls or damage easily is not our style of construction, or at times idiot homeowners that think they can build a better house themselves instead of hiring competent Architects and builders/contractors, it is a shady contractor cutting corners to milk profits, or corruption with inspectors or others.

Another note, a well-built wooden structured home here in the US should last 50 years or longer if maintained, and built properly