...except for the OP's whole point - they break easy.

For instance, cords. There's never been a load coil on their cords, because they look clunky. So they are noisy as heck. Their cords have no strain relief - again because it looks clunky. So their cords are the #1 replacement item due to breaking all the time right at the connector.

All the cords I've ever seen have stress relief. It's not nearly adequate in my opinion, but they do have it.

or they do it like this because they can sell new charge cords at a premium so they engineer them to fail

Perhaps. Intentionally bad engineering is still bad engineering for the user.