It doesn't even have to be unrelible/cheap drivers that fail. Even name brand Cree/Phillips/etc stuff have drivers that will fail rather quickly if your wall cu

It doesn't even have to be unrelible/cheap drivers that fail. Even name brand Cree/Phillips/etc stuff have drivers that will fail rather quickly if your wall current is at all dirty. The effect of this is LED lightbulbs that have a shorter lifetime than incandescent lightbulbs did in my apartment. At least incandescent and halogen bulbs were just a bit of glass and wire: explicitly disposable. But LED bulbs are full of parts and boards and the like and generate far more waste.