Costco is actually a decent org, and if anyone knew they were selling this time-bomb garbage, they would stop it, as they will warranty stuff for YEARS, just to be a somewhat decent company in a time of pirates.

I own one of these disks and quit using it when the news came out, expecting I should hang onto it to get money back for a recall. Didn't even occur to me I could just have brought it back to Costco all this time because of their extremely generous return policy.

Blissful ignorance imho.

Maybe Costco caught up with this. I can't find it on their web site (at least in the US.)

All I see is the "Extreme Go" which I presume is a different product.

Not the same series. "Extreme Go" is not the same product as "Extreme Pro". I have two of these from Costco and they have worked fine for several years.