I can count on one hand the China wrenches we busted, they got it by hammering or repeated impacting, broke half a dozen impact sockets but a bunch of 80's Cman chrome ones. Broke out a deep early HF set I heard they will replace, it kept me off them a while.
I bought a few things when I was a kid buf dad was not a tool guy and when I hit 18 needed the stuff. I crunch the math and decided I could live with Cman and wasnt gonna chase a truck around with 100's taped to my forehead. I figured I could be a collector later and I bought the 3500$ big set, had 3/4 big, had larger taps and dies and the world was gonna go metric. I collected double that much used or dupes, couple different times simply bought sets when we found ourselves looking for stuff.
Some I should have bought more sooner. But I have to say that the common combination wrench and particularly the import as we bought some and some USA from the grab bin at 1$ which at the time was a bit more than today have returned their cost by multiples repeatedly and survives hundreds and even thousands of cycles and still in service.
If you asked me that when I bought them,,, I bought as a daily stop gap for a chore or 2 and they working 25 years later, they also come down in cost since in some respect or dont cost any more and on top of it all I like some better for some things. The cost has been the bonus as well as the incentive, the risk was so small and the reward so hi that its easy.