The only time any of it is even worth looking at is when they do the tent sales.
Your tool snobbery is mis-placed. Their current business model is very successful. Yes they helped to cause the downfall of Sears Craftsman brick/mortar stores.
I have been buying various USA-made brands since the 1960's, my first quality socket set was a Wright 3/8" drive metric socket set branded as Montgomery Wards Powr-Kraft, w/the 'Tootsie-Roll' rubber-covered ratchet.
I asked for a metric socket set to fix our '62 VW Beetle cabriolet my parents bought new, about 1966. One of my older brothers stuffed the front end into a curb on a wintry WNY evening, when the local roads were icy-slick. It was my intro into trying to fix things on my own.
Since then, my tool purchases have been almost exclusively USA-manufactured tools, both power and hand tools. I think sometime last century I bought a Chicago Electric orange plastic-case/alloy headed side-grinder, and it's still going.
I bought a rotary demo hammer-drill in SDS-Max size, and it has done a number of jobs easily well-beyond its 'pay-back' time. The set of carbide drill bits and the accessory bits (chisel, spade, needle) have given reliable service on any number of jobs. I'm a retired guy in the garage, and I don't work outside of the house for anyone.
I bought a Hercules porta-bandsaw and the combination horizontal and vertical stand for it. It works well, and I've used it a number of times. I built a 2x4 stand for it, and the bandsaw does what it's supposed to do.
If I have something heavier to cut I have a Delta floor-model metal-cutting bandsaw.
It's OK to express your opinion, of course, I expect that there are more people on-here who have found many useful, reasonably-priced tools at a HFT that make sense during these times of increasing prices and a need to accomplish things with an eye on the 'bang for the buck' tool acquisition. I shall continue to purchase a combination of USA-made and offshore tools, which has worked well for me, and I suspect, many of our dear readers.
Bonus description: my Vulcan multi-process 12//240V welder was bought with my HFT class-action lawsuit refund. I'm no expert in welding but being able to learn MIG/TIG/stick/wire-feed is something I've wanted to do for years. And now HFT has a versatile tool helping me to do that.
A good use for crummy bedframe steel, making a crawl-space door. Yes and on a HFT folding welding table.
A professional welder found the HFT multi-process welder did well in the task at hand, adding new motor mounts and a tubular transmission mount to a Tri-Five chassis.
At first, he was skeptical about the HFT 'orange box', being used to 'red' or 'blue' box brands, but after a bit of experimentation welding some #5 re-bar to a piece of U-channel steel, he went to work.
When he was done with the tasks for the day, he said, "it worked well, better than I thought it would, I would use it again with no worries about its performance."
I still have buried somewhere, but I rarely use a chainsaw.