2) I see a need to place proper emphasis on your statements, so that you understand where you're going wrong.
"My ceiling fans eat those things!"
"I have six in the house and each has 3 -4 of those bulbs."
I don't doubt the truth of either of those statements.
However, to to assert that your experience, in your house is in any way predictive of what everyone else will experience is ridiculous.
My experience with them is entirely positive. None have burned out. All provide equivalent light to similarly rated Edison bulbs in the same room on the same circuit. All provide full light within about 10 seconds.
I would be wrong (as you are wrong) to generalize my experience.
If I were still teaching high school physics, I would use this conversation to illustrate the utter fatuity of extrapolation from a single data point.
This isn’t physics, this is finance.
The law of finances is:
Caveat emptor.