Exactly so.
The only S-O tools I had that broke in service were entirely unexpected breakages - one was a thin-wall sparkplug socket (on examination the broaching was too close to the edge) which was welded up and is still in use 30 years on (was nowhere near a S-O van at the time and needed it to work) and the other was a 6" Pozidriver which another S-O man exchanged, no problem, years on and hundreds of miles away from the original sale.
I've broken other, cheaper tools, largely through expecting too much of them, but sometimes they just let go too damn soon - but that's what comes of being used to the capabilities of decent kit for years.
In recent times, because I'm not doing it professionally any more, my tool budget has cheapened a lot, but I try to get best bang per buck I can and that's how I discovered King Tony - totally by accident. I'd busted a no-name socket on a hub nut and the only one available locally in that size was a K-T. Armed with a K-T 3/4" breaker bar, extension and impact-grade socket (oh, and 6ft of scaffold tube) that hub nut gave in. No worries to the K-T kit at all, and I started to look seriously at buying more of that brand.
