The seemingly widespread reports of display cracking due to hinge issues makes me question that it is "extremely well-executed".
I would expect every phone I buy to be the best phone I've ever used. That's how technology works, isn't it?
Yeah and OP is incorrect, foldables are a rapidly growing segment in mobile phones. Having used one for over a year, I'm not going back, and had the Duo been out a couple months ago, I probably would have bought that instead of the Fold8.
Foldables to me look like a fad. People are using them now because it looks cool, but I have seen people to return back to normal phones due to unreliability of foldables.