i supose you're right. it's just a bit disheartening, that's all.
there is a small suburb of cleveland that requires the shingles to be at least 300 lb. per sq. the area is "well to do" to say the least. for all of my customers in this little burg, i sold them the "cry once" roof system.
this means all copper drip edge, copper flashings, 6' of ice guard at all drain edges, special ice guard details at the (copper) valleys, 30 lb felt, shingle vent II, morter crowns, tuck pointing, siloxane treatments at chimneys, and independence shingles. 20 year laber warranty, and certainteeds 40 year warranty on the materials. big money jobs. and we got about a doz. of them in just this small burg.
i ain't looking forward to tell these folks that the roofs shot due to a shingle defect, and certainteed's willing to pony up 10-15% of the replacement cost.
on top of that, the company i sub from was installing one of the product lines mentioned in the link by the semi truck load. good thing we were only using them for a couple years. probably only 2-3000 jobs.
i guess it could be worse. could be like globe.