There’s such a large market now it’s hard to identify quality product. Good news is that the prices have fell to the point that the ROI in energy savings is very short.
Just got defunded.
If the LED bulb needs a power supply, it's much lower voltage (and there are an abundance of component choices for those voltages - at least more so than fluorescent bulbs), and there's been lots of work for efficient power supplies in that range. Also there's new no-power supply LED filament bulbs expanding in the market now, and I would think those would tend to last even longer with much fewer components to fail.
On the other hand, some cheap no-name chinese LED lamps I got off Amazon started failing after less than a year.
There definitely are some bad, short-life LED bulbs out there -- especially on the lower end of the market.
I think it was about $45 when I bought it. A similar model is down to $21 for a 100W equivalent now.
I've got several other Philips bulbs of that type that have been in use for a long time, though not quite that long.
I've never had one go out.
As with you, I've had numerous cheapies go out over the same interval.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_Prize#/media/File:Philips_LE...
It produces good-quality light, too, despite what you'd think from the yellow shell color.
One of the more amusing ways the cheap bulbs failed is by neglecting to use UV stabilisers, so just leaving the bulb on would cause them to degrade their own housing until they fell apart. (The other main failure mode I saw was the transformers giving out.)
From my experience, about 1/5th of LED bulbs fail within the first year.
However, all lamps that survived the first year haven't broken in 3 years total yet.
I think it might be related to the internal powersupply, some had visible stress damage from thermal cycles (molten, cracks, etc.).
I also had a few LEDs in an RGBW strip fail that I use for lighting though I soldered around that.
"Whether or not these pricier bulbs will actually last that long is still an open question, and not one that the average consumer is likely to investigate. There are already reports of CFLs and LED lamps burning out long before their rated lifetimes were reached. "
Other than warmth, my home LEDs (all of them - Cree) have lasted 7 years and look to last about 10-15 more. They've already paid for themselves as before that I was replacing 4-5 bulbs a year and wasting 10x the wattage.