Fram has always been the bottom of the filter barrel.

Why do some not have issues??
Try this, with an old junk car, cut the guts out of the filter so it cannot filter anything. Put it on and it will run 100,000 miles!!!
Open up any filter you will trust to protect your expensive motor and look at it. What you see is what you get.
Do you want to filter your oil with cardboard ends?? Or steel/plastic??