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I've been using a Philips 100W equivalent bulb for about 12 hours a day for almost 9 years now.

Companies can always manufacture garbage if they don't care, but LED technology is fantastic.

Exactly

Phillips master ultra efficient, similar to their Dubai lamp, may be what you need. Running much less power per led is more efficient, so there's less heat and the lifetime is massively increased. Big Clive put a good video out about Dubai lamps a few years back.

Same here - I am constantly replacing my LED lights whereas parts of my house still have 25 year old incandescents that have never been replaced since I moved in.

Same here. I keep a big box of LED lights hanging around in a box and am constantly replacing them. I had to replace incandescent lights too, but not nearly as often. Everything is designed to fail.