Seems this has (now is) been the norm. HP recently acquired gaming peripheral company HyperX. I purchased a HyperX Cloud III headset on recommendation. While it hasn't bricked, apparently a month or so prior to now HP bricked all of those headphones for a month with no update.
Same, bought 2 Hyper X Cloud Orbit-S Gaming (one for me and my partner), and they both broke within 2 years. If you look on the Amazon reviews and sort by date you will see everyone is having this problem, they break in the exact same place after about 2 years.
