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Japanese maker have a weird love for wood glue. For instance flat pack furnitures come with glue for extra strength, where Ikea just sizes the bits tight enough to not need any.

To play the devil's advocate, their wood glue doesn't smell and is pretty easy to use. It's less messy to me than regular scotch paper glue for instance.

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I look at the Ikea furniture I buy and apply wood glue as and where I can.

Some bits are really not ever meant to come apart ever again.

I think they improved a ton in the last decade or so.

Most parts using wood bits nowadays are either enclosed and there is no tension that would make the bits get out, or the bits are seconded by metal pieces that actually maintain it all together.

Yes, I think I don't even remember seeing a piece with wood bits not seconded by the metal thingies (I love the mechanism btw, it's weirdly satisfying)

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