That may be your experience, but I've been using TP-Link as my go to access points for myself and my clients (home and small business) for the past 6 or so year

That may be your experience, but I've been using TP-Link as my go to access points for myself and my clients (home and small business) for the past 6 or so years. I've deployed maybe 20 APs in that time and none have failed yet.