For sure, you don't feel things wrong with this newer stuff until its real bad. New parts are not what they used to be either.
On our 04 PT cruiser, I replace the brakes about a year ago. Rotors, hoses & calipers. A couple weeks ago, the pedal started pulsating. Pulled the front tires off, and both brake rotors have cracks on each side of nearly all the cooling fins, on both braking surfaces, all the way around the rotors! Each rotor has probably 30 cracks on each side of the rotor! There is a spot on each rotor where the outside edge also cracked between the fins, and started to bend inward, that must have been the point the pulsation started. We felt nothing before and had no indication the rotors were cracking.

These rotors were USA made, bought at NAPA, top level available, with less then 12,000 very easy miles. NAPA says "Sorry, here is the new set, $77.00 please. The "old ones" have exceeded the warranted time frame." The replacement rotors are not USA made, maybe they will last more then a year. Gene