What is to be expected from QC these days?

[Hell Patrol]

I've had an interesting experience the past few months upgrading displays, I've got a bit of an older rig and given the state of the PC hardware market right now I decided to just gun for 1080p at the highest refresh rate I could get. I went through a heck of a lot of LG 24GS65F-B's that all had various dead and stuck pixels in very noticeable areas of the screen, three in fact, plus one that simply just shut itself off periodically.

At the end of that I decided to get an Alienware AW2525HM, 320 hz display, and within about a week it manifested some sort of partial sub-pixel defect, looks like the pixel is just darker than the other pixels around it, (photographs seem to show all the individual sub-pixels otherwise illuminating fine) beyond that and some bad white uniformity the display has been decent to me so far. But it got me thinking, I've been buying displays for 20 years now, and outside of very early mainstream adoption LCDs (2004-2009), I don't think I ever saw anything resembling these kind of defects at anything approaching a significant rate. I bought everything from bargain bin junk to mid range 1080p displays in the early 2010s to BenQ 165 hz TN's in the late 2010s, and in spite of thorough inspections I never once had a dead, stuck, dim, or otherwise defective pixel on any of them, including for many I helped friends and family shop for.

This kind of stuff just more normal now? The display I have now is livable, more or less, I can't say I'm happy with it but I won't lose sleep over it for sure. I didn't want to bother with OLED, given the various 'ergonomic' issues OLED has, namely that you've got to handle one with a certain degree of care that I just find to be a hassle for what is ultimately a gaming monitor if you want it to last. But it seems like a lot of the good quality manufacturing went over to OLEDs now, are things just more normal in the OLED section of the market, or the 1440p displays too I suppose? I guess I'll also ask if there's any chance of that dim pixel working its way normal over a few hundred or even thousand hours, I was never really an IPS guy and as I understand it these dim and bright pixels that otherwise work fine have always been more of an IPS thing as I understand it, which is now the entire market really besides VA panels.

Heck maybe the experience I had is just an anomaly too, I hadn't bought a display in quite awhile before this so I'm curious what other people have been getting.