You get testy over everything man, lighten up. We all speak from our experience. Obviously you've had good luck with the product, some of the rest find it to be inferior. Why take it so personally? It's a cable! Let's move on shall we?
My stack of Hosa cables that all have at least one or two bad channels are a testament to that though. Many of those were patched once and left that way, but still developed bad spots.