This is the trend with all Merrell's as far as I can tell. I had the same experience with the Trail Gloves as OP had. Which sucks, because Merrell could have be

This is the trend with all Merrell's as far as I can tell. I had the same experience with the Trail Gloves as OP had. Which sucks, because Merrell could have been a good business for decades if they hadn't moved to the model of cutting costs and fucking customers to exploit brand loyalty biases.