Not true. Locations can survive on commuters.

It’s a chunk of plastic on your wrist. It’s always going to be a bit tacky.

Michael Hudson calls it out fairly regularly.

The story with Pyrex is more nuanced than people think.

Yes, the type of glass was switched, but for safety reasons. The classic (all-caps, I believe) PYREX was able to handle the thermal shock of going straight from the freezer to the oven. When it did break, though, it broke into sharp splinters. Modern Pyrex needs to warm up some before being put into the oven, but when it breaks it does so in square chunks.

Like all glassware, scratches and chips seriously degrade the strength of the glass, even if those scratches aren’t visible. Failure can happen unexpectedly because of slight impacts to invisible microfractures. Don’t scrape your glass with metal utensils and be careful with secondhand Pyrex, because you don’t know if it’s been dropped before.

Instant pots absolutely break within a few years. Mine did at 4 years, after the second or third time I made bone broth in it.