Yeah, when I went looking for advice on couches and chairs that'll hold up to serious (ab)use, everyone in the know recommended a couple of modern heavy-duty ma

Yeah, when I went looking for advice on couches and chairs that'll hold up to serious (ab)use, everyone in the know recommended a couple of modern heavy-duty manufacturers or finding something from the mid 80s or earlier and refurbing, both due to survivorship bias and because even cheap furniture from that time was very "overbuilt" (or just "built" if you have normal standards and aren't a cost-shaving manufacturer) compared to modern stuff and legitimately is much stronger. There aren't really other options AFAIK, and we have both some heavy friends and three young kids so better to spend low 4-figures on a couch once than high-3-figures and have to replace it every year or two. If those steel frame Campaign Living couches actually hold up, they're a good deal at ~$1200. That ugly-ass bulky $800 Ashley Furniture couch with all the faux engraved wood and crap from the furniture store stands a real chance of breaking in short order under very ordinary and careful use, let alone anything extreme. They're garbage. One of several cases in which I think our standard of living gains the last couple decades are kind of fake, disguising lots of things actually getting much crappier as they get less expensive. Though some others, to be sure, have improved—cars, notably, and computers for the most part.