Hua-Jie users: how have your switches held up?

[Hak Foo]

After the group buy here last year, I mounted mine in an 3rd generation Omnikey chassis with a Blackheart PCB.

I found that a fair number of the switches didn't click properly when first installed, and required a bit of working to snap into position. I didn't notice this when I did a similar build with Matias switches.

This was fine, for about a year. In January 2020, the space bar switch died, and although I soldered in a new one, by that point the Unicomp 103 was already on order.

I like the classic buckling-spring mechanism, but I love the "103+12" layout of the Omnikey more, so I went to swap in some less terrible keycaps. When I pulled it apart, I noticed that perhaps 20% of the switches, mostly on heavily used keys, had suffered significant linearization and click-failure. Probably more than I have spares to swap...

Are the switches breaking down this badly for anyone else? Did anyone else use them for more than 20 minutes before the next shiny thing came along?