You always make me laugh
I don't think there is a set of cams produced by any company that have never ever had a problem, is there? I mean, shit happens. As long as there is no consistant pattern of failures nor a statistically significant total number of failures for a specific piece, then it's more or less okay I think. Hell, the drive to the climb is usually more dangerous than the climb itself (depending on the driver, climbing partner, conditions, and on and on and on.).
Oh, and will you send me that U-guy's email again, I broke the last cam I got from him.
Ha Ha. You make ME laugh. Have you actually led anything on gear? Anything harder than 5.6. ?
I would way rather make a hard committing move over a blue metoli these days than a green alien. That said, there are some places only aliens will fit.