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It could be good fortune but I've been on Macbooks since around 2003 and have had substantially better luck with power adapters since MagSafe came out. I had a

• bigiain 10y ago
  I recently (early this year?) had to replace the cable on the charger from my 2006 MacBook Pro (one of the black ones). I've got other chargers from the 2009 MacBook Pro, the 2010 one, I had a 2013 one for almost two years, and I've got a 2015 MacBook Air - all of which have perfectly fine charging cables. I've never used the ears to wrap up the cable, I tend to just loop it up and stuff it in my bag if I'm taking the charger with me. I also have mostly had enough chargers around compatible with several in-use MacBooks that I'd leave a charger at work and another on the couch and another in the workshop, and rarely move the chargers around anyway. So I;m probably treating them as nicely as possible (purely by accident rather than from any desire to not damage them - I am, and Steve would have said "holding it right"...) I do realise there is a systemic problem though - once I'd fixed my old old one, a bunch of friends can out of the woodwork asking me to repair theirs as well.