After 15 years of regular use, my Asda under £1 spatula has split. It was one solid piece of hard plastic, thin at the tip and with a nice short (almost square) end bit. I bought a more expensive one online that seemed to be the only type easily available and it's bendy, long, rubbery and blunt at the end, so completely useless for getting under things or properly separating mince in the pan or any of the other things I used to use my wonderful, cheap spatula for (sob). I can't understand why someone would look at a great tool and over engineer it to make it worse. What would you even use it for?! I resent this new imposter spatula out of all proportion!
So it got me wondering whether anyone has any other tips on things where the cheaper version is actually better than the fancy one. Not, "this is so much cheaper and does the job so I'll get this," but, "why would I pay ten times as much for something that is actually much worse than the cheap version and is just going to annoy me?"
My other example is Aldi Hotel Collection candles. The smell really gets all over the room and masks any doggy smells whereas expensive luxury candles I've had often don't smell at all unless you stick your face in them.
I'm all ears...!