Ironically Logitech might be partly to blame for this. Logitech being the biggest Omron customer of D2F switches basically forced them to move manufacturing fro

Ironically Logitech might be partly to blame for this. Logitech being the biggest Omron customer of D2F switches basically forced them to move manufacturing from Japan to China the way Walmart forces suppliers to cut costs until they bleed. Thus the era of "10 million click" switches dying precisely around 1 year of use began. Nowadays Razer and other high end mouse vendors use immortal Optical switches.