As opposed to hole in a block of wood? Given these were metal and hard to craft, that would be like leaving a thousand-dollar pencil holder on one's desk all day.
And there are people on this planet with solid gold pens in their pocket. People today love flaunting their wealth, and so did people 2000 years ago.
False.
>Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old, perfectly preserved wooden toilet seat at a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland.
believe fewer unevidenced claims
So the article you link says, in colloquial English terms, that stone and marble toilets from the period are pretty common but wooden toilet seats are basically all disintegrated. Only one (1) wooden seat is known to remain.