I agree, but I find it notable that none of the benchmark records are “made in the USA” anymore.
While that may be true in part, it is in large measure due to the technological development in the rest of the world tied to repressive anti-free market policies of the US gubmint.
Either way, it all started here.....a fact that cannot be changed.
There was a time when optics made in Rochester New York by Kodak and Bausch & Lomb were as good as or better than any on earth.
Several years ago I bought a new in the box U.S. Army surplus binocular at a pawn shop near Ft. Stewart, Georgia. I also had a WWII B&L U.S. Navy binocular made in 1944. The Army one had filters made by, I think a company named Corion or something similar.
Anyway the old WWII binocular was optically superior despite having been around for many years.