You finding it to be true or not is irrelevant. BIFL footwear is based on construction and very rarely just native hardiness. Zero consumers stores sell a 100% complete line of BIFL footwear. Most makers don't sell a 100% complete line of BIFL footwear. So saying, fictionally, "Go buy Brand X" is pretty ignorant. So saying, fictionally, "Go buy from Store X" is doubly ignorant. If you have specific advice for a specific shoe, by all means, state it. But stating for someone to go to a store which sells probably 100 boots from 40 different brands is anti-helpful. I know on the men's side of DSW, they sell zero BIFL anything save the Clark's Bushacre II which, though not featuring BIFL construction is just abnormally hardy.