Anker has been hit-or-miss for me. It either craps out early, or lasts much longer than it has any right to. They're still my go-to for cables, because I usually lose or give many of them away before they have a chance to show their worth

The main thing that kills cables is sitting a phone in portrait on one's chest and having it plugged in for charging. That creates a nice 90-degree or nearly 90-degree bend that just destroys the cable over time.

I'm in the same boat. I've bought their cables at least 3 times at 3 different points in my life. All of their cables have failed within about a year. That being said I use them extremely heavily because I'm an Android app developer. I have many test devices and I'm constantly plugging in new devices and sometimes have up to 3 devices connected at the same time. I'm also not just charging the devices as I'm transferring data between the computer and device.