The best part: These weren't even dimmable units nor were they on any sort of dimmer-style circuit. On/off only. Still garbage.

Then that's not PWM; they cheaped out on the power supply by not including capacitors to smooth out the 60 Hz AC waveform.

Agreed. I actually considered retrofitting the existing units with parts from digikey. I am 99% sure the issue is due to total absence of any electrolytic capacitors whatsoever on the PCB.

LEDs are a lemon market where the only people making profit are those who ship lemons, everyone else gets pushed out of the market.

The luxury days of installing an incandescent bulb that lasts for ten years are gone, lucky to get six months out of "contractor grade" LED products and consumer devices usually don't make it much over a year.

Sure, burns a little less coal, but its not like LED manufacture and shipping is as environmentally friendly as beewax candle production LOL. Overall we're probably worse off as a civilization with LED lighting.

> The luxury days of installing an incandescent bulb that lasts for ten years are gone, lucky to get six months out of "contractor grade" LED products and consumer devices usually don't make it much over a year.

I'm always surprised to read such comments, incandescent bulbs definitely burned out regularly, and the LEDs we have now are more or less as durable in my experience.

I still have a few CFL bulbs that are more than 10 years old (that I keep because their slow warm-up is actually desirable in some cases) and my Ikea LED bulbs are all between five and three years old. One of them (out of 12 I think?) did fail last year, it was four years old.

What cases exist where a slow warm-up is desirable?

The bedroom, bathroom, toilets for example because it's not as jarring as when the light turns on at once at full power. And it's infinitely cheaper and easier than setting up dimming.