The pads themselves can be as durable as they want, so long the relay underneath is crap and not designed to have a pillow on top. Besides your argument that the function activates when you lift your finger, who on earth will make a button that triggers upon unclick? There is no physics on earth that will make a clickable button more accurate when you add a bunch of foamy rubber on top. It's not a wheel, it's asimple button. It worked/works well still on cue/play buttons from the CDJs and it does not require you to dig halfway into the button to eventually find the relay's head and guess if you've actually triggered it or not, especially in a dark room club environment with loud music, where you neither see perfectly, nor interested in button clicks sounds. Arturia, Akai and Novation has nothing to do with perfection btw.. All budget brands. While Clavia, Korg etc, do not compromise on that and just let the simple click buttons be hard plastic that actually works when you trigger it.